Social history

Youths salute Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler Youth: how the Third Reich used children’s organisations to wage war

Policemen from Scotland Yard patrolling at night

Real-life Sherlocks: the detectives of Scotland Yard and their curious cases

Thomas Blood stealing the Crown Jewels

The day Thomas Blood stole the Crown Jewels

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

Virus H1N1

Could flu really kill thousands again?

Children in Auschwitz

Second World War

The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

The death of Sir Winston Churchill and the top-secret plans for his funeral

A sultan rides through Istanbul – at its height, the Empire ruled over more than 15 million subjects

General Early Modern

Your guide to the Ottoman empire

An engraving depicts a frost fair on the Thames

Frozen: Britain’s Little Ice Age

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

General Early Modern

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?

Sir Nicholas Winton

Second World War

The ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children from the Nazis

West Indian immigrants arrive at Waterloo Station, 15 October 1961. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

The Windrush generation

Catherine de Valois is seen here marrying Henry V, who was 14 years her senior, as part of the 1420 Treaty of Troyes. Following Henry's death she wed Welshman Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, who is variously referred to as the queen’s steward, page or cupbearer. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy)

Scandalous Tudor marriages: 7 women who braved royal wrath by marrying for love

Historian Stephen Tomkins (Photo by Fran Monks)

Puritans and the Mayflower

German prisoners of war

Second World War

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War