Where history happened

A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

Where history happenedJoan of Arc.

Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Samarkand 1404.

A woodcut showing the Globe Theatre, one of London's most famous landmarks and the venue most closely associated with Shakespeare's plays. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Where history happened: Elizabethan drama.

Ye olde travel guide: Acre AD 1272.

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2.

Ye olde travel guide: Olympia 480 Bc.

The site of the battle of Naseby, which saw parliament's New Model Army win its first major battle against the royalists in June 1645. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 1.

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Historic Rochester

The man best associated with the new style of landscape gardening was William Kent (c1686–1748), a Yorkshire-born artist and architect. (Public domain)

The English landscape garden.

Historic Jedburgh

A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement.

Where history happened: Dunkirk.

Arundel castle at dawn

Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda.

Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)

9 places associated with Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot.

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Ten things to do in . . . October

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Ten things to do in . . . September

Cliffords tower, built by Henry III between 1250-1275, rear view, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 13th century

Where History Happened: The Norman Conquest.

Deer graze in the gardens by the distinctive red sandstone gateway to the mausoleum of the Mughal Emperor Akbar at Sikandra near Agra. (Photo by Getty Images)

History Holidays: Mughal India.