History Weekend 2019

Hallie Rubenhold photographed in London.

Hallie Rubenhold: “To most people, the women killed by the Ripper are just corpses. I want to tell a different story”

Richard III, anonymous painting around 1500. (Photo by Alamy)

The house of York

Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has

How the Falklands War fired up Britain

The three siblings Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence were meant to be on the same side in the Wars of the Roses. But, says Thomas Penn, their relationship was defined by jealousy, backstabbing and even murder.

Blood brothers: Richard III’s battle with his siblings

Henry Hemming.

Second World War

Fake news in World War Two

Daisy Dunn.

The destruction of Pompeii

Max Hastings by Fran Monks

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Max Hastings on the Dambusters

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

Second World War

Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.

Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

Tom Holland by Helen Atkinson

Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy

Dan Jones by Steve Sayers and Helen Castor

The Crusades, with Dan Jones

Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination

Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

Babita Sharma

The corner shop revolution

Jews stand with hands up before German soldiers

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The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland