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My history hero: Aled Jones chooses Freddie Mercury (1946–91).

Old Wardour Castle

Britain’s 7 most amazing ruins

Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage: the vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare.

A brief history of London tourism since 1800.

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Shakespeare’s best (or worst) villains.

Music and revolution.

Uncovering China's Terracotta Army.

My favourite place: Paris, France

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

Q&A: When were the first film trailers shown?

A baby wears pink.

A brief history of colour.

A view over Yaoundé, Cameroon

My favourite place: Yaoundé, Cameroon

How networks shape history.

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth.

The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)

History Explorer: Opera in Britain.

Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Oaxaca Mexico

ExploreOaxaca: Central Mexico’s “fair and beautiful city”.

The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

The lost objects of South Asia.

The brilliance of Henry James.

Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto and a mountain in the background

ExploreKyoto: Japan’s city of gardens and geishas.

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?.

Jane Austen and Tudor London.

The Beatles arrive in Japan

1966: the Beatles' tumultuous world tour.

Should historical place names be changed to fit modern values? Historians debate.

The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war.

Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)

The nuclear 1980s.

A group of women cycling along the beach at Newquay, c1923. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling.