Historical people

A multicoloured photo collage, including an Indian soldier in WW1 military uniform, a woman dressed in dark jacket, cap and tie

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"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

To the left, there is a black and white image of Queen Victoria. She is dressed in dark clothing and has her hair partially pulled back by a black fastening. Facing her, on the right is an image of John Brown, a bearded man wearing military uniform and a hat. Over them, there is a pink treatment with a rip in it

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How I uncovered Victoria's secret love: Historian Fern Riddell explains all. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Paint your own pot, like an ancient Etruscan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From fatal foliage to the perils of ploughing: the Tudor calendar of death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

J Robert Oppenheimer (left), and Cillian Murphy

20th Century

Is Oppenheimer a true story? Meet the real Robert Oppenheimer, ‘father of the atomic bomb’

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

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The Virgin Queen? Elizabeth I's forbidden love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman faces the camera, smiling and resting her head in one hand. She has the other hand resting on her crossed legs. She is wearing a floral jumpsuit

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“Africans have been starved of historical figures from their own lands that they can look up to”: Paula Akpan on female African leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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When was the worst time to be alive? You'll be surprised at what our expert has to say. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Engraved portrait of British poet and politician John Milton

Stuart

John Milton: the Paradise Lost author who challenged the status quo

Aethelred II, known as Aethelred the Unready

Anglo-Saxon

Aethelred: why was the Anglo-Saxon king called ‘the Unready’?

Ruth Ellis and her friend Desmond Cussen

20th Century

The true story of Ruth Ellis and the hanging that rocked a nation

Portrait of Saladin

Medieval

Saladin: a hero of Islam and scourge of the crusaders

Paddy Mayne (left), a founding member of the SAS during WW2, and Jack O'Connell (right) who portrays Mayne in BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes.

20th Century

The real Paddy Mayne of SAS Rogue Heroes

A portrait of William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody standing in front of his saddle, holding a rifle behind his back.

Victorian

13 famous cowboys and gunslingers from the history of the American Wild West

An engraving of John Milton in 1670. By that time he’d been blind for nearly two decades – but continued to express strong views on religion and the monarchy in his writing (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Long road to paradise: the life of John Milton and how he created his masterpiece, Paradise Lost. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christine de Pizan, pictured speaking to a trio of inspirational women in an illustration in her Book of the City of Ladies, written around the turn of the 15th century (Photo by Album/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Medieval influencers: 4 women who brought change to the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fess Parker, an American actor, as Davy Crockett

Georgian

The man in the coonskin cap: your guide to Davy Crockett

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

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"An enlightened turn": how medicine (and the vaccination) developed in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mural in Bristol of activist Roy Hackett, one of the primary organisers of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott (Photo by Steve Taylor ARPS/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Hakim Adi | “Racism in Britain has a long history – but so does anti-racism”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

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Lady swindlers: 6 women who turned to lives of crime and became queens of the underworld. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcastJustinian: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A collage showing historical babies. Edward VI as a baby, Edward VIII as a baby, and a depiction of the baby Jesus.

Norman

Historical baby names: a guide to baby name trends from the Anglo-Saxons to today

A cup depicting a male couple making love

Roman

The boy that emperor Nero made his ‘wife’: what the tragedy of the castrated Sporus tells us about homosexuality in ancient Rome

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Video podcastCatherine de' Medici: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Lucius Verus.

Roman

The worst Roman emperors: 8 of the bloodiest from ancient Rome's history

An image of Aethelstan

Anglo-Saxon

Æthelstan and the foundation of England: your guide to the 'first king of the English'

Frida Gustavsson as Freydís Eiríksdóttir in season 3 of Vikings: Valhalla

Viking

Was Freydís Eiríksdóttir a hero or a deranged murderess?

Portrait of Catherine de Medici, also known as the Serpent Queen

Tudor

Catherine de MediciThe life, death and legacy of the 'Serpent Queen'

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