Period

A c1642 portrait of a 12-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, accompanied by a page, likely painted to commemorate his presence at the battle of Edgehill (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Making of a monarch: how the young Charles II endured war, defeat and exile before the Restoration.

Æthelflæd: ‘Mother of the English’.

Burke and Hare

Burke and HareLisa Rosner on the pair's crime spree.

The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Art, culture and science in the Restoration period.

Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science.

My history heroChris Hadfield chooses Michael Collins.

Coronation portrait of Charles II after his crowning at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661 (Image by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Your ultimate guide to the Restoration period

An illustration of Charles II entering London on 29 May 1660 after the restoration of the monarchy (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Restoration periodA timeline of key moments

WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’.

Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know.

Episode 8Athens.

Stained glass in Exeter Cathedral depicting King Æthelstan. (Dreamstime)

The astonishing Æthelstan.

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater?.

Ewan Horrocks as Aelfweard and Adrian Schiller as Aethelhelm in The Last Kingdom season 5

Ælfweard and Æthelstan: were they rivals for the throne of Wessex?

Picture of Throrolf slaying Earl Hring

The battle of Brunanburh: the forgotten fight that changed British history

Bamburgh Castle is an imposing coastal fortress in North-East England

General History

Bamburgh Castle: The Real Bebbanburg of The Last Kingdom

A bloodied Uhtred of Bebbanburg in Seven Kings Must Die

Seven Kings Must Die ending explained: what next for England?

Uhtred of Bebbanburg in Seven Kings Must Die

Seven Kings Must Die: the real history behind the Last Kingdom movie

‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?.

The KGB’s secret war on the west.

A protester wearing a star badge at an anti-vaccination rally in Cardiff, 2021. The badge’s design deliberately evokes the star Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied territories during the Second World War.

“Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate”: Richard J Evans on the trouble with comparisons.

Illustration by Cat O'Neil

David Ingram: the Tudor sailor who hiked across pre-colonial America.

Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s.

James Gillray's A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion

How did caricaturist James Gillray satirically take down the Prince Regent?

Queen Victoria

Assassinating Queen Victoria: the men who attempted to murder the monarch

WW2 the big questions: the early years of the conflict.

What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age.

Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know.

Episode 7Oslo.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement