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An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

In thrall to the red planet: 5 facts about our view of Mars through history.

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: The photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot

The French ballerina who became wealthier than Queen Victoria.

Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial.

Corner shops and Russian ballet.

Bridge Cottage, Wirral. (Photo by Corbis Documentary/Getty Images)

History explorer: the arts and crafts movement.

Arts and Crafts and unusual inventors.

"Welcome home, Charlie": Chaplin’s postwar return to London.

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads.

History’s most fascinating muses.

Student life and working class culture.

Shakespeare: the historians’ view.

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

How Shakespeare rewrote history.

Verdun and the Renaissance.

A canal in Venice, Italy

My favourite place: Venice, Italy

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: treasures of the Al Thani Collection

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer

In pictures: Alice in Wonderland

The Death of General Wolfe

The Georgian craze for popular history

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama's portraits of a nation.

Celts special.

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Celtic art and identity

Life of the Week: Andy Warhol

Artist Leonora Carrington

My history hero: Leonora Carrington (1917–2011).

In pictures: medieval stained glass

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature.

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?.

First World War

In pictures: WWI submarines

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Frames in focus

5 photographs that (you didn’t know) changed everything.