Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

A new civilisation rises

An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

A spell-binding history of witches

The Marshall Plan and the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

Vikings on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

‘Vikings’ creator Michael Hirst on the real history behind the hit drama

British 40th Division tanks transporting captured German guns from the battle of Cambrai. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

First World War

5 tanks that changed the course of the First World War

The World Cup story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish Flu pandemic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

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

Notre Dame and Paris, France

The LibraryMy favourite place: Paris, France

Journey’s End: behind the scenes of the new First World War film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Living with the oceans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Paris, France

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

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

The Carbonniere Tower

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

Historian Simon Schama.

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The British soldiers who fought for Germany in the world wars

In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: the Camargue, France