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My history heroSteve Hackett chooses Thomas Paine.

Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country.

Video podcastFlorence Nightingale: life of the week.

Florence Nightingale: life of the week.

Statue of Zeus, king of the Greek gods

King of the gods and sex pest: the legend of Zeus and his thunderbolts

Cocaine: a Victorian sensation.

Tales from history's toilets.

Video podcastJustinian: life of the week.

Medieval science: everything you wanted to know.

Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle.

A man holds his head in his hands as he is visited by the ghostly apparition of a woman. A photographer's assistant is visible at centre, right.

General History

Halloween stories10 terrifying tales from medieval to modern history

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?.

Halloween card depicts a pair of girls as they look out of a window as a witch (with a black cat) rides a broom across a full moon, early 20th century.

General History

What is the history of Halloween?

Tyrant, Usurper, Hero | 3. Henry V: hero.

Tyrant, Usurper, Hero | 2. Henry IV: usurper.

History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature.

Video podcastDismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort.

Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil.

Medieval England's political miracle.

The Korean War: everything you wanted to know.

Video podcastRoman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire.

Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire.

A vessel at sea comes across the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman

General History

Seven of history's most disturbing ghost ship stories that will haunt your dreams

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'.

The bloody rise of Henry V: how his brutal upbringing propelled him to greatness.

Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

InterviewRobert Bartlett: "The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk".

General History

Michael Wood on Gaza's astonishing cultural heritage.

Child-killing "demon-hosts": pigs in the medieval city.

Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow, as depicted in a painting from 1851. The French leader is the classic example of a man driven to wage war by a lust for power, says Richard Overy. (Photo by Getty Images)

What drives our addiction to war?.

Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age.