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Henry II

What happened at the French court when Henry II died?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Big questions of the Crimean War: into the Valley of Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why Britain fell in love with the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How should we see the NHS's history on its 75th anniversary?

A man winces as he receives a flu vaccination

How Britain fell in love with the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

NHS nurses holding a baby.

Was there ever a golden age of the NHS?

Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.

Alice MarbleThe tennis champion with multiple lives

Illustration of the Children's Crusade of 1212, from the Story of the British Nation, Volume 1, by Walter Hutchinson, c1920 (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What was the Children’s Crusade, and did it actually happen?

From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1950s illustration imagines a group of mountaineers catching sight of a large Yeti in the Himalayas

General History

The hunt for the Abominable Snowman: what's the history of the Yeti legend?

Gussie Moran playing tennis with her lace knickers on show at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.

10 scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life on Britain’s WW1 home front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A gear wheel in the Antikythera mechanism, an analogue computer created by ancient Greeks that forms the basis for the Archimedes Dial in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

General History

The real Archimedes Dial? The Antikythera mechanism explained

How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Hiram Bingham

General Early Modern

How a proto-Indiana Jones rediscovered the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu

Indiana Jones

General History

Was there a real Indiana Jones?

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

Big questions of the Crimean War: the build up. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Grand Pyramid and plaza at the maya city of Tikal, in modern-day Guatemala

Tikal in 7 artefacts: explore the metropolis of the Maya. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 16th-century painting, Triumph of Death, by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts an army of skeletons ravaging the Earth (Photo by akg-images)

6 moments when diseases drastically altered human history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How germs shaped human history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jai Singh II (third from left) built astronomical observatories across northern India in the 18th century, incorporating knowledge he’d sourced everywhere from China to Portugal (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)

Why the scientific revolution was far from just a European phenomenon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Mathematician and Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing played a key role in deciphering the Enigma code (Photo by Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if...The Enigma code had not been cracked by Alan Turing and Bletchley Park?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.