Montreal residents with Canadian flags

Canada

History's greatest cities: Québec City. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women's history podcast episodes

Digging into the Klondike gold rush. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Everything you wanted to know about Canadian history

Canadian history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The Terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the world made us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

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

This 1867 magazine illustration shows a group of children preparing for Halloween. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

The origins of Halloween: tricks, treats and cobbled streets

Highclere Castle

The secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade (Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders) going ashore, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944. (Credit: Gilbert Alexander Milne/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-122765)

Second World War

“Free people everywhere should remember them”: the Canadians’ role in D-Day

A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic

The ruins of the Canadian port of Halifax in the wake of the explosion in December 1917. Almost 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured when two ships collided at the height of the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

Catastrophe in Canada

Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow

Aquatic Centre Ferry Dock, Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vancouver, Canada

Photo of a Canadian postage stamp

Q&AWhen was the first Christmas stamp issued?

5 facts about the history of the Women’s Institute

Q&AWhy didn't Canada join the colonies in the American Revolutionary War?

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Winnipeg 1913. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration depicting the battle of Naseby, arguably one of the most significant land battles in British history. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

20 important battles that shaped Britain

An American privateer is shown repelling a British attack during the War of 1812. Despite some notable successes, the British regarded the entire conflict as a sideshow and quickly forgot it. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

When Washington burned

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

The Library“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War

Communist sport: Cold War copycats

The LibraryThe battle of Quebec and the jealousy of a queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The gardens of the Ursuline Convent, Quebec, Canada

Esther Wheelwright: from survivor to mother superior