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Portrait of Oliver Cromwell

The Western Design: Oliver Cromwell's disastrous campaign in the Caribbean

Exterior of the White House, Washington, D.C

Who built the White House?

Medieval documents in danger

King Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty

What was the Erfurt Latrine Disaster?

Aeronauts James Glaisher (left) and Henry Coxwell (right) pose in the basket of their hot air balloon

The balloon-riding Victorians who courted disaster: the true story behind The Aeronauts

Our 10,000-year quest for equality

Elizabeth I and James VI & I (Photo by Getty Images and Alamy)

From Tudor to Stuart: the succession of 1603

Michelangelo: life of the week

Video podcastThe Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?

Women of the Greco-Persian Wars

The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?

Video podcastThe plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees

Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know

Historical anniversariesSeptember

General History

Why was Mozart obsessed with poo?

Women at Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta Houses of University of California at Los Angeles in 1952

General History

What is Greek life?

A 14th-century depiction of a lady and youth playing a game of draughts (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

War and pieces: 5 games from history that were about much more than fun

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "We mustn’t overlook the toll of surfacing traumatic histories"

The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees

Video podcastFalse rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices

Norse god of war and All-father, Odin, next to Germanic princess Brunhild

General History

Fierce and furious: who are the most powerful gods of war throughout world history?

False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices

Nicola Fox and Marie Curie

My history heroNicola Fox chooses Marie Curie

Emperor Vespasian: life of the week

Portrait of George III.

QuizHow well do you know the Georgian period?

Oradour-sur-Glane: one of WW2's most infamous massacres

An audacious escape from slavery

Former British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting behind a desk

Where does the term ‘champagne socialist’ come from?

The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know

Roman soldiers on the detail of Trajan's Column

Why decimation was the most unfair punishment in the Roman Army