Death

Engraving of emperor Commodus's death

Cheese, angry gods and shoddy surgeons: the unlikely deaths of Roman emperors

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dance of death

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

First World War

“Far too little, too late”: what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain a century ago?

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

The downfall of Thomas Cromwell

A copper engraving of Margaret Pole's execution

General Early Modern

Are these the worst botched executions in history?

Charles Manson stares out from fabric on sale in San Francisco

The afterlife of Charles Manson

King George VI and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth

The death of King George VI: what happened?

Queen Victoria

The final days and death of Queen Victoria

The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

The death of Sir Winston Churchill and the top-secret plans for his funeral

German prisoners of war

Second World War

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The Auschwitz volunteer

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

The liberation of Auschwitz, 75 years on: what happened and how do we remember the Holocaust?

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini give a fascist salute

A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends