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Karen Jones on the Wild West

The Wild West: everything you wanted to know

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament

The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Alternate history: what if… the gunpowder plot had succeeded?

Daniel Lee on the HistoryExtra podcast.

Second World War

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII’s final ‘kindness’

A portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, c1588. (Photo by ACTIVE MUSEUM / Alamy Stock Photo)

Walter Ralegh: “The rankest traitor in all England?”

AUSTRIA - CIRCA 1778: Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France, Daughter of Maria Theresia. Canvas by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Marie Antoinette, Erzherzogin von Oesterreich, Koenigin von Frankreich (1755-1793), Tochter von Maria Theresia Joseph, 1778. Gemaelde von Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun]

Marie Antoinette: the last queen of France

Evil May Day

The Evil May Day Riots of 1517: what happened?

The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe’s unholiest holy men

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 8: A conclusion (of sorts)

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 7: Survival theories

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 6: The other suspects

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 5: Circumstantial evidence and strange behaviour

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 4: Examining the evidence