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Queen Catherine the Great and (inset) a horse

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse?

Rome's most scandalous emperors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

The royal threesome that rocked Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1300 depiction of a man paying taxes

Do you know the correct date of Magna Carta? Here’s why you might be wrong

Farmers standing in a field

Where does the term redneck come from?

Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The forgotten JFK assassination plot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John F Kennedy in 1960 (left) and would-be assassin Richard Pavlick

The JFK assassination attempt you’ve never heard of

The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A farmer in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

10 things you need to know about medieval Bohemia before you play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Kuttenberg as seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

The real history behind Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: how Kutná Hora became the silver crown of medieval Bohemia

A Japanese woodblock print, c1855, depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu, and the god Takemikazuchi subduing it with the kaname-ishi stone (Photo by Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

General History

Why is a mythical catfish to blame for earthquakes in Japan?

From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Maria Theresa

General Early Modern

The incredible Habsburg empress you’ve never heard of: who was Maria Theresa?

How monasteries powered medieval Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman.

The real reason Jane Austen never married

An artist's impression of the scene on the track, hours after the Abergele Train Disaster, a carriage is on its side and smoke billows from the wreck

An inferno that claimed 33 lives: the story of a deadly Victorian disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The final years of the war | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Holocaust | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The outbreak of war | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen's grave.

Lupus or murder?What was Jane Austen's cause of death?

Greenland, forest fires and presidential power: history behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroMary Archer chooses Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The hydroelectric power plants at Niagara Falls, seen in 1890, would have been a key target for the US in War Plan Red (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

War Plan Red: The secret US plan for war with Britain via Canada

George Villiers: from royal favourite to enemy number one. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Extinct animals: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical anniversariesFebruary

HistoryExtra AcademyNazi Germany, with Laurence Rees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The coronation of Harold Godwinson as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

Is this toilet the ultimate Anglo-Saxon status symbol? Inside Harold II’s ‘ensuite’