Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

The cost of unity: Ian Kershaw on the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on a controversial term“As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

Travel toLuxembourg: rural beauty and Gothic grandeur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon

Trial by fire: how a fortress siege changed the course of World War One. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Fortress: An epic battle of World War I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

In pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

Simon the cat

10 top cats in history

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 making of the Bayeux Tapestry: who made it, how long did it take, and how has it survived?

1st May 1975: Three documents, for and against, published for the referendum on the Common Market

Britain decides: the first European referendum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

Slave revolt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Marie Antoinette in deep mourning, while in prison

The final days of Marie Antoinette

Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has "ceased to be a nation in retreat," declared the prime minister in the wake of the victory over Argentine forces.

How the Falklands War fired up Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

The WW2 obsession: why the world can't move on from 1945. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Secret listeners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cardinal John Henry Newman

How to become a saint. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) (Photo by Getty Images)

Orlando Figes on the transformation of Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry Hemming.

Fake news in World War Two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Daisy Dunn.

The destruction of Pompeii. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers at the battle of Arnhem

Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of Arnhem

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

Second World War

Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies' battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in a tutu

Q&AWho invented the tutu?

Tom Holland by Helen Atkinson

Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A gamer plays the video game 'Red Dead Redemption II', an action-adventure and multi-platform western video game developed by Rockstar Studios released on October 26, 2018. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Battlefield V: the real history behind 3 popular video games

A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family

Q&AWho were Prince Albert's family, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jan Žižka, the general whose peasant army defied the Holy Roman Empire in the 1420s.

Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Agincourt, 1415

True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum

Chancellor Adolf Hitler with President Paul von Hindenburg, Berlin, 1 May 1933

Second World War

Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henri III: Elizabeth I’s unlikely ally. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.