Children Playing Near a British Soldiers in Belfast

Northern Ireland

An early Peace People march in Belfast’s Woodvale Park

What was the Peace People movement in Northern Ireland?

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

Why we should remember…The battle of the Bogside

A black-and-white photograph of men walking down a road lined with shops. They are armed with guns

The Irish Civil War: 100 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

A still from James Cameron's 'Titanic'. (Image by Alamy)

How accurate are the most famous films about Titanic?

Titanic in dry doc before it was launched

TitanicWhen and how was the ship built?

St Patick depicted in a 13th-century folio

The history of St Patrick's Day traditions – and the importance of the colour green

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

Illustration by Joey Guidone

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

Britain and the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

9 of Britain’s best castles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the second half of the 12th century. This military intervention had the backing of King Henry II of England and was authorised by Pope Adrian IV. Here you can see Henry II landing at Waterford in 1171. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: 850 years on

A British military post in a street in Dublin during the Easter Uprising, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

The history of Ireland: 11 milestone moments

Ireland podcast

Ireland’s past and present. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s Catholic emancipation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryBritain’s brutal battles for hearts and minds