Heritage visits

Flames and smoke are seen billowing from the roof at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, 15 April 2019. Yet despite the devastation, the fire is “not the worst chapter in its 850-year history”, argues Dr Emily Guerry. (Patrick Anidjar/AFP/Getty Images)

Notre-Dame fire "It's extraordinary what has survived"

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General History

Global stories of museum artefacts

View of Windsor Castle's East Terrace

General History

Fit for a queen Elizabeth II's royal residences

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Cathedrals: from bishops’ seats to tourist hotspots . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s lost towns and villages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Royal residences: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Castle Howard.

General History

Where is Bridgerton filmed? 5 places to visit for fans of the popular Netflix period drama

Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. (Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)

Hadrian’s Wall: when and why was it built? A brief guide

King George III

The illness and decline of King George III

People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones

GJ1HTR A standing stone at Borvemore, with a view to beaches beyond, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

General prehistory

Explore 8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

Explore Silbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons

An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses

Ornate water gardens of the ancient fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka

General ancient history

From Nan Madol to Karakorum: 7 cities that history forgot