Early comic panel illustration

England

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Palace of Westminster

Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Mount Grace Priory

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Q&AAre there any rulers of England that don’t appear on the usual lists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Q&AWhat was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Q&AWhat overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

A depiction of the battle of Naseby

Did Roundheads and Cavaliers really dress so differently?

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

A fresh look at Edward III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford

The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire

Smithills Hall, Bolton

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels

Erddig, Wrexham

Three coal miners. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

History through the eyes of the working man

Royal Gunpowder Mills, Essex

History heroJo Brand chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Helmingham Hall, Suffolk

Strangers’ Hall, Norwich

Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire

The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape

General prehistory

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

Visit historic Warwick

Grosvenor Museum, Chester