Death

English suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), who led the movement to win the vote for women in Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)

Women in black: the surprising history of widows

The White Ship disaster

Charles Spencer on the White Ship disaster, “the most disastrous moment in British maritime history”

Charles Spencer talks about the White Ship disaster on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

The White Ship: a medieval royal tragedy

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII’s final ‘kindness’

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster

Priest offering the heart taken from a living human victim to the Aztec sun god and god of war, Huitzilopochtli. Print of facsimile from Aztec Codex, published 1904. Human Sacrifice (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

King George VI and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth

The death of King George VI: what happened?

Alexander the Great

Where is Alexander the Great buried? And other questions about his death…

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

The downfall of Thomas Cromwell

Illustration from Dante's ‘Inferno', depicting thieves tormented in hell by serpents.

General ancient history

A brief history of the afterlife

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Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London

Medieval punishments

How bloody was medieval life?

Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had

The final days of Anne Boleyn: why did she die?

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe

Black Death facts: your guide to “the worst catastrophe in recorded history”

Engraving of the death of Cleopatra

When did Queen Cleopatra die and who killed her?