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The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Normans sailing across the channel

The Bayeux Tapestry: a political football for 900 years

Diana Spencer, wearing a red top

What created the Diana phenomenon? The origin story of the ‘people’s princess.

Exploring the medieval world with Marco Polo.

A visitor looks at the Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry is finally coming home to Britain – and you can see it next year

A female agent serving in Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

Second World War

Step inside the covert WW2 spy network that trained women to kill with their bare hands

The Mitford Sisters | Part One: life of the week.

HistoryExtra AcademyWW1 Myths and Misconceptions, with Alex Churchill.

A collage of pictures shows a black woman wearing a spotty dress in the foreground to the right. To the left, an image of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by a police officer, with a bus and several slogans in the background

Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation.

How to wage war like a Roman.

Beyond the trenches: a new take on WW1.

Episode 2Was it possible to be neutral in World War One?.

Episode 3Beyond the trenches: untold stories of WW1.

Episode 1Did Franz Ferdinand's death really start World War One?.

Be wary of technology’s big promises, but roll with the changes.

St. Pancras Smallpox Hospital.

QuizHow much do you know about the history of disease?.

Cold War-era President John F Kennedy leaves St Stephen Martyr Catholic Church in Washington DC — just hours before Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba, defusing the Cold War’s most dangerous standoff.

The CIA’s most unlikely Cold War weapon? A secret smuggling operation that terrified Soviet censors

Roman warfare: everything you wanted to know.

A portrait of James Bond author Ian Fleming

Second World War

Think James Bond's pure fantasy? His creator's real WW2 missions were more outrageous than you'd believe

Archaeologist Buzz Busby alongside two Roman swords.

A hidden Roman villa? A pair of "remarkable" swords might have just unlocked its ancient secrets

Two green hearts are sideways, facing each other. In each there is an image: one has a painting of Elizabeth I and the other has a painting of the Duke of Anjou

The Virgin Queen? Elizabeth I's forbidden love.

The People's Princess: why Diana captivated the world.

Two pilots dressed in military uniform sit in the cockpit of a small war plane. Both are looking out the window the right of the picture

"England is invincible": How the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain.

Secrets of medieval manuscripts.

This mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily depicts women exercising — a rare glimpse of female leisure in the Roman Empire. (Photo by Getty Images)

Are you healthier than a Roman? These ancient secrets for longevity are still shockingly relevant

Owain Glyndŵr: life of the week.

Historical anniversariesJuly

Magic beakers & Roman helmets: artefacts that shaped history.

SOE: everything you wanted to know.

From a scandalous threesome to classical stardom: the actress who found redemption in Handel’s Messiah.

Sisi & Eugénie: the empresses who redefined royalty.