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Diary of the judge who hated Hitler to be published for first time

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Bust of Herodotus.

Books interview: Herodotus’s ‘The Histories’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Temptation, scenes of devils in everyday life (a banquet, war, love, marriage etc), folio 215V of Breviary of Love, late 13th - early 14th century Provencal codex by Ermengol de Bziers (detail) | Photo Credit: [ The Art Archive / Real biblioteca de lo Escorial / Gianni Dagli Orti ]

“People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do”

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Professor Richard Bradley investigates the Neolithic tomb of Wayland's Smithy. The stone monument we see today hides an earlier wooden structure that held the remains of 14 people. (Photo by Oliver Edwards)

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Franklin D Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the USA, and a

My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

Paul Delaroche's 19th-century painting shows King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London. What happened next has puzzled historians for centuries. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The archaeologist and explorer Gertrude Bell (1868-1926). (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette

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First World War

Telling jokes in the trenches: First World War newspaper The Wipers Times celebrated in new BBC drama

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England

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Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Waterloo: the historians’ verdict

An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who

My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423