Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

A revolutionary engineer and Victoria’s Indian confidant.

King James II of England and VII of Scotland (1633 - 1701), c. 1680. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A king without a crown: James VII and II’s years in exile.

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

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

How could the son of Henry VIII become Edward VI?.

Through foreign eyes: the forgotten ambassadors to the Tudor court.

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history.

Black British history and Charles I’s children.

The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images)

Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066.

The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings.

The Norman Conquest.

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne.

Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king.

The search for Henry I: what you need to know

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong.

Eleanor of Aquitaine.

History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

In the central image, leading Fifth Monarchists are executed on 19 January 1661 following the bloody failure of their uprising. Their leader, Thomas Venner, was hanged, drawn and quartered. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Soldiers of the Apocalypse.

On the trail of the Yorks: 8 places associated with Richard III’s family.

Two King Edwards.

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers.

Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

Suzannah Lipscomb & Dan Jones discuss Henry VIII's final two wives: Catherine Howard & Katherine Parr

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb discuss Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I's court.

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

Hadrian's travels.

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Catherine Howard: The death of innocence.

Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did".