England

Dinosaur dung became a valuable commodity in 19th century Cambridgeshire. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Dinosaur dung billionaires: the Victorian ‘gold rush’ for fossilised faeces

Eddie Singh, who journeyed to the UK in the 1960s. (Image courtesy of Yvonne Singh and family)

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner

A montage of Romans (Photos courtesy of Getty and Alamy)

How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England

A portrait of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York

Like father, like son: Richard Plantagenet and Richard III

A statue of Oliver Cromwell stares downwards, against a red background

The dark truth about Oliver Cromwell

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John of Gaunt: prince without a throne . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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John of Gaunt shown in a c16th-century portrait

John of Gaunt: The man who would be king . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tostig Godwinson, brother of King Harold II of England, and King Harald Hardrada of Norway receive the submission of the city of York

Hastings, Stamford Bridge and Gate Fulford: three battles that lost England

The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: what’s the story?

An illustration of Henry VII, surrounded by Tudor roses. In the background there are shadows of those who challenged for his throne.

Henry VII: the greatest pretender

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A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Battle of Britain myths . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle

Q&A Why do we say 'Peeping Tom'?

An Anglo-Saxon cross from the church of St Michael

Anglo-Saxon conversion: the coming of the cross (at the point of a sword)