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England

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Officers at the Exchequer, 12th century England

Medieval immigration: “They’re heavy drinkers, barbarous and full of guile”

The Victorians’ surprisingly liberal attitude towards gay men

Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&ADid the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy was the Black Prince called ‘Black’?

Love and marriage in Tudor England

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history

Holbein portrait of Henry VIII

Q&ADid Henry VIII have any illegitimate male offspring?

Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of celebrated English nurse and wartime heroine, Edith Cavell

First World War

History heroKate Mosse chooses Edith Cavell (1865–1915)

Henry VIII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

10 facts about Clifton Suspension Bridge

8 facts about Old Sarum – an Iron Age fort, Roman settlement and medieval city

Picture depicting the Dogger Bank Incident

Q&AWhat was the 'North Sea Outrage'?

England captain Bobby Moore

My history hero: Bobby Moore. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture of a lion and tiger fighting

Q&AWhere was England's first zoo?

History quiz - Queens of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

Q&AWhy do we say 'saved by the bell'?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

Portrait of Henry VIII

Q&AWhich of Henry VIII's wives was his best match?

The princes in the Tower

Did Richard III murder the princes in the Tower? You debate

Tracy Borman's Tudor quiz