Early comic panel illustration

England

A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

How historians helped build the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When British pop invaded America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III

What if…Richard III had won at Bosworth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Domesday Book: medieval big data. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The decline and death of Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

Georgian Britain: sex in high places

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London

Christmas ghost stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

The love lives of medieval queens

Were the suffragettes terrorists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ten things to do with a medieval donkey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Richard III

Richard the radical: was Richard III a champion of the people?

Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

Nelson in his own words

History heroAndrew Marr chooses Charles Darwin (1809–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Imperialism on the oceans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

Second World War

Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre

Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?