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Landmarks of Berlin

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The Cuban Missile CrisisWorld on the brink

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History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories: Season 1

Orthodox monks (backed by Russia) and Catholic clerics (backed by France) both tried to stake their claim to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Why did the Crimean War start?

Applying economic pressure and blocking bulky Russian exports helped win the war, says Professor Lambert

OpinionProfessor Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War's legacy

The book that transformed medieval England

Why the Middle Ages matter

Roger Fenton’s assistant, Marcus Sparling, poses with their mobile ‘Photographic Van’

The major innovations of the Crimean War

Portrayal of the Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light BrigadeWho blundered in the Valley of Death?

Reeta Chakrabarti and Janusz Korczak

My history heroReeta Chakrabarti chooses Janusz Korczak

The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis

The Queen distributing the Crimea Medal, Horseguards Parade, London, c1850s, (1888).

How did the Crimean War end?

The Battle of Sinop.

8 battles that shaped the Crimean War

Breastfeeding: a cultural history

The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, 1854. Artist Hayes, Michael Angelo (1820-1877).

The Crimean WarA timeline of key moments

Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor

Soldiers in the Crimean War

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Lord Byron

Everything you wanted to know about the Romantics

Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know

My history heroIain Dale chooses Ronald Reagan

Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor.

Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors

Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?

The solid gold death mask of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, now held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Photo by Fayed El-Geziry/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

TutankhamunThe Egyptian boy who really discovered the Boy King

From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath

Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king

Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

Mussolini's March on RomeHow Italy became the first fascist state

Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tales of romanceThe historical love stories behind 5 British castles

Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter