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A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror

A painting depicting a 16th century wedding feast. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The other Elizabethan England

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My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Barry

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III’s remains

The notion that men fought and died 'for nothing' is a fallacy, says Max Hastings. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

1914: Why Britain had to go to war

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Robert Baden-Powell in the 1920s.

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

The march of the Green Shirts

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Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Top 5 Jane Austen recipes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England, Shropshire, Shrewsbury. Ruins of the Abbot's Hall of Haughmond Abbey, a 12th Century Augistinian abbey near Shrewbury.

My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Gaunt

AE8AP9 The Prospect of Whitby pub on the bank of the River Thames in London England

My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing

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Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

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My favourite historical places: Professor Robert Bickers

The then Princess Alexandra pictured here in 1884 wearing the high-necked, feminised version of the male suit that became associated with her. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Who’s the best-dressed Briton in history?