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Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life, work and love

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Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 3: What story does the Tapestry tell?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Da Vinci's sketch 'The Vitruvian Man'. Da Vinci's talents ranged from anatomy to military engineering, and many of his innovations were not explored further for several centuries. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Your guide to Leonardo da Vinci: his life, inventions and milestones in his career

The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tales of Irish emigration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 2: How was the Tapestry created?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michelangelo was a Renaissance sculptor, painter and visionary. This 17th-centruy portrait was completely shortly after his death

Your guide to Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo

Cellini: the “supreme scoundrel of the Renaissance”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking women gathered outside a home - illustration

What was life like for Viking women?

Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Roman medicine: 6 ways people stayed healthy in ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 1: When, Where & Why. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

Vikings under the microscope: what can science tell us about Viking life?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Thirty Years’ War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revolution on the western front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The western front: a cauldron of innovation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great: all you need to know about the empire builder and military genius

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?

A photograph of the battle of Moscow, 1942, first printed in Signal, a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 to 1945. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake

Formidable dynasties of the Italian Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

The assassination of Julius Caesar

What if…Julius Caesar had not been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of the thin Red Line, depicting the 93rd Regiment at the battle of Balaklava

Q&AWhat was the Thin Red Line?

Dr Jenna Dittmar, who has been studying medieval skeletons, reveals what her findings can tell us about injuries and violence in the era. (Image by Getty Images)

Fatal accidents and violent injuries in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A decoy rubber tank such as those used by the Allies during WW2.

Masters of disguise: the story of the Allies' WW2 'Ghost Army'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of 1066. The tapestry was most likely embroidered by women in Norman England in a workshop setting using four embroidery stitches – stem stitch; split stitch; chain stitch; and laid work, sometimes called ‘Bayeux Stitch’, says Dr Alexandra Lester-Makin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Bayeux Tapestry: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?

Dark side of fashion: a 1910 portrait of a woman wearing a hat adorned with ostrich plumes and a stuffed bird. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, owning hats like this was a sign of status for many women. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

A hatful of horror: the Victorian headwear craze that led to mass slaughter