Literature

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

Second World War

My history hero: Michael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek

Afrikaners with a Nordenfeld-Maxim field gun at Mafeking during the Second Boer War, 1900. (Photo by Getty Images)

Authors in the Boer War

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Documents that changed the world

Portrait by Sherril Schell of British poet Rupert Brooke. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

First World War

5 influential WW1 poets you should know about

10 facts about Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë

Portrait of the Bronte sisters

The Brontës: the unfortunate and unlikely tale of the world’s “greatest literary sisters”

British writer Hilary Mantel photographed at home

Hilary Mantel on the secrets of successful historical fiction

The Voynich Manuscript is written in a unique alphabet that has thus far defeated some of the world’s greatest codebreakers. (Photo by Alamy)

History’s greatest mysteries The Voynich Manuscript

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

General ancient history

Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain

Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke in 'The Limehouse Golem'.

The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’

Colour portrait of Jane Austen

A brief guide to Jane Austen, plus 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about her

Stained glass window of King Alfred the Great

Exclusive podcast The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Historians have chosen their favourite historical novels.

9 of the best historical novels – as chosen by expert historians