Early comic panel illustration

England

Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

The rise of the Great British 'bobby': a brief history of Britain's police service

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

Escaping the workhouse: the Victorian war on child poverty

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

Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage: the vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Thomas Becket

The LibraryEngland’s forgotten civil war

Biddenden Maids Cake. (Public Domain)

Sisters of mercy: the Biddenden Maids

Shakespeare’s best (or worst) villains

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

History explorer: the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry VIII “regarded his wars as the worthy successors of the great martial victories of England’s past”, says Steven Gunn. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

The LibraryTotal war in Tudor England

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

The Terracotta Warriors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

Elizabeth’s love rival. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

East End crime. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century depiction of the first meeting of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History quiz: Christmas with Henry VIII and his wives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An aerial image of Maiden Castle, site of Britain's largest hillfort. (Photo by Robert Harding/Getty Images)

What was life like in the Iron Age? Plus 6 places in Britain to explore. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Britain’s Bonnie and Clyde

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

Black faces of Tudor England

Charles II on the run. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?

What are Henry VIII powers?

High Victorian style garden designed by James Bateman. (Getty Images)

History explorerVictorian gardens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.