Heritage visits

A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

An aerial view of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (Photo by David Goddard/Getty Images)

Explore Tintagel Castle and the legend of King Arthur

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General Early Modern

History Traveller, part 2: St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

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General ancient history

History Traveller, part 1: Meroë, Sudan

The British Museum in London

Virtual museum and monument tours: how to explore the wonders of history from your home

The Church of St Martin of Tours in Canterbury

Q&A What is the oldest church in England?

Photo of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles

The palace of Versailles: Sun King Louis XIV’s ultimate power play

Jesus appears before Pontius Pilate in a crowd scene from Oberammergau's 2010 Passion Play. The Bavarian town stages the mammoth production once every ten years, with a cast made up entirely of local residents. (Photo by Brigitte Maria Mayer Passionsspiele Oberammergau 2020)

Travel to: Oberammergau, Germany

Knole, a house on an epic scale that's now run by the National Trust.

Explore Knole: the grandest of family homes

One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

Travel to Luxembourg: rural beauty and Gothic grandeur

The footprint of Old Sarum cathedral

Explore Old Sarum: the regal and the rotten

Being invited to become a 'guest' of the Tower of London in medieval England meant, more often than not, that you would soon be food for the crows. (Image by Getty Images/RM Creative)

10 historical haunted sites across Britain

It was in the Cabinet Room that Churchill would meet with his ministers and make the critical decisions that would shape the war. (Image by Getty Images)

Second World War

A visit to the Churchill War Rooms, London

Highclere Castle

The secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

The battle of Agincourt, 1415

True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum