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Moving, medieval-style. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An empty knight's armor sitting on a chest.

Q&AHow did knights in armour go to the toilet?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

Your guide to...transportation to Australia

Aztecs in their own words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Evil May Day

Flames and violence: the Evil May Day Riots that shook Tudor London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Naming of St John the Baptist, c12th century. From a wall painting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval baby names: what were people called in the Middle Ages?

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Margaret MacMillanWhy are there wars?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The dispossession of Native Americans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

"We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that's not the reality": Margaret MacMillan on humanity's compulsion to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Halloween postcard

10 things you didn’t know about the history (and mystery) of Halloween

Medieval daily life: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In 802 Charlemagne took delivery of an elephant, sent to him by Harun al-Rashid, the caliph in Baghdad. Here, a manuscript illumination from a late 12th century English Latin bestiary. (Image by Alamy)

8 turning points in medieval European history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The storming of Beziers

Medieval turning points. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Myth of the Mayflower: the voyage that made America?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)

How to become a history student at home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

How can we improve diversity within history education?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

A Sikh tragedy: the Indian kingdom that fell foul of the British empire

A reconstruction of an extract from the Book of the Dead depicting an embalming scene. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images)

Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife

A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Medieval marginalia: exploring 'doodles' from the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Mayflower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

From Enola Holmes to Fanny Dickens: recognising 5 historical women ‘overshadowed’ by their more famous brothers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.