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Roman women: everything you wanted to know

Queen Victoria's son, King Edward VII, rides in Queen Victoria's funeral procession, February 1901. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images)

Lessons from historyWhat happens when a monarch dies?

Queen Elizabeth wearing a hat against a blue background

In picturesQueen Elizabeth II through the decades

Author, adventurer, archaeologist: Agatha Christie’s action-packed life

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 2

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezHildegard of Bingen

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 3

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezKing Jadwiga

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 1

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezThe Loftus Princess

Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958

Queen Elizabeth II50+ facts about her life and reign

The Holocaust: a 21st-century view

The statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester set against a blue sky background

Excavating Winchester: the dig that changed (urban) history

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

General History

QuizBritish prime ministers

Ian Hislop and Alfred the Great

My history heroIan Hislop chooses Alfred the Great

Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister

MalintzinAztec interpreter

Victims of the February Revolution are carried through the Field of Mars in Petrograd

Russia's Civil WarWhy the 1917 uprisings descended into disaster

Ellis Island: everything you wanted to know

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe

JRR TolkienThe making of Middle Earth

How nomads changed the world

A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

Why we should remember…the first Partition of Poland

General History

Monarchy timelineFrom Hastings to the Windsors in 122 moments

Troops engaged in street fighting in the battle of Stalingrad,1942 (Photo from akg-images)

Second World War

The battle of Stalingrad: a German officer's account of WW2's bloodiest battle

Baron Franz Nopcsa in Albanian uniform.

15 minutes of fameTom Holland chooses Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás

Return of the Viking raiders

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris who is medical historian and has written a new book called ‘the Facemaker’ about WW1 facial reconstruction

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris“This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero, but losing a face made you a monster”

East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?

The uniform worn by pupils at Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham. (Photo by Rex Features)

The history of school uniforms

A portrait of a young Queen Victoria from around the time of the first assassination attempt in 1840

What if…Queen Victoria had been assassinated?

The big questions of religious history