Video shorts

Five things to look out for when visiting a castle

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs

Prince Charles, aged 4, driving a toy car in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

King Charles IIIA life in pictures

What makes a good coronation? Tracy Borman answers

General History

What makes a good coronation?

Which British monarch had the most successful coronation?

Which British monarch had the most successful coronation?

Kathrine Swizter.

Kathrine SwitzerThe shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967

James Gillray's A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion

How did caricaturist James Gillray satirically take down the Prince Regent?

A man in Victorian dress holding a cane jumps on a beach

Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?

Bronze Boudica statue against summer sky in London

What did Boudica’s Iceni warriors look like?

Did the Duke of Wellington really call his troops the “scum of the Earth”?

Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tales of romanceThe historical love stories behind 5 British castles

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

The death of Queen Victoria

Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How did Elizabeth I feel about being queen in a 'man's world'? | Tracy Borman explains

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

Did Elizabeth I and her half-sister, Mary Tudor, have a good relationship? Historian Tracy Borman explains

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

Anne Boleyn (left) and her daughter, Elizabeth I. (Photos by Getty Images)

What did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains

A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

"There was no feeling sorry for themselves": director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War

An introduction to the Black Death

3 of the most famous royal weddings in history

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