Historical people

Statue of Leif Erikson (Leifur Erikssonn) in front of Eric the Red's home. (Photo by Draper White, Getty Images)

Viking

Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

20th Century

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

(L to R) Isaac Newton, Henry VIII and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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How did people cope with ‘lockdowns’ of the past? And were they really all so productive?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

19th century advert for snuff

Georgian

Q&AWhat was snuff?

Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

Viking

Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. (Photo by David Lee/Netflix)

20th Century

Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

Viking

The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama

Marble bust of Nero

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Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval

The Huguenots vs France: who were the Huguenots and what did they believe?

The Trojan Horse – seen in the 2004 film Troy

Ancient Greece

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

Ian Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character

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Marble bust of Caligula

Roman

Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

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Black British historyBritain's black trailblazers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

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Glamis Castle is said to be the most-haunted castle in Scotland. (Photo by mpalis via Getty Images)

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Tudor

Thomas More: saint or sinner?

Georgian

The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

20th Century

Rasputin: the 'mad monk' who became a friend to the Romanovs

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The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empress Matilda

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Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I: a queen in a king’s world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Cecil, also known as Lord Burghley, with Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Elizabethan

Your guide to William Cecil, chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I

It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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Women detectives: meet the Victorian female super sleuths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

Old Norse sages describe Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir as 'the loveliest of women and nobel in every trait'. But this far-travelled Icelandic woman was eulogised largely not for her beauty and charm but as a strong-willed survivor who married three times and bore a son, Snorri, in Vinland (North America) during on of her intrepid voyages (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

Viking

The amazing life of a great female Viking explorer

Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain as dictator from 1939 to 1975, raises his arm in salute

20th Century

Francisco Franco: is it accurate to call the Spanish dictator a fascist?

Edward the Confessor, depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry

Anglo-Saxon

Edward the Confessor: 9 fascinating facts

Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

An engraving of Margaret Tudor

Tudor

The forgotten Tudor: Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII

First World War

WW1 poets5 famous figures you should know about

A profile portrait of the Victorian novelist and poet Emily Jane Brontë (1818–48), now in the National Portrait Gallery. Brontë is best known for her novel 'Wuthering Heights', published in 1847. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Victorian

10 facts about Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë

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