England

A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

General prehistory

Secrets of Stonehenge When & how was it built?

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

Peaky Blinders: The story so far, plus the real figures to expect in season 6

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Pod Mike Pitts WL

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Children's author Beatrix Potter as a young woman, c1892

Why the real Beatrix Potter was more than her children’s tales . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lettice Knollys

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

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A group of Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club

Penelope J Corfield “The Georgian era was a time of experimentation and invention” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Charles and Camilla A history of their romance

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A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England’s forgotten armed revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&A Did most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?