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Rufus Kampa as Prince William

The Crown S6: the challenges of telling the story of living royals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcast1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, in the Tower of London as imagined in Paul Delaroche’s 1852 painting.

Philippa Langley on the Princes in the Tower: “It was clear we had to consider the possibility that they survived”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

The ex factor: why David Cameron’s return isn’t unprecedented. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Matilda of Scotland: the queen behind the veil. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Charlotte and Princess Diana

General History

Charlotte and Diana: the parallel lives of two Princesses of Wales whose deaths sent the nation into mourning

What was Queen Elizabeth II like as a mother?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diana and Charles in Canada, 1986

Charles and Diana: a history of their marriage

William of Orange depicted landing in Devon

What if…James II and VII had kept his throne?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo inside Winchester Cathedral looking up towards the arches. Just underneath an arch, there is a dark brown inscribed box.

The bone chests of Winchester: an Anglo-Saxon detective story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of Queen Anne Boleyn, with her hair held up, and a B pendant on one of her necklaces.

Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Meux & Co. brewery on Tottenham Court Road in c1830

The London Beer Flood of 1814: what happened in the deadly tragedy?

A portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) during the Napoleonic Wars. Although Waterloo was "undeniably the most pivotal battle of this campaign", it was not the final battle against France, says Jem Duducu. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Napoleonic Wars

A women with a shocked face next to a calendar with the date of Friday the 13th

Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

Pupils at a primary school in London

Are black histories still being overlooked?

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a "vivid running commentary" on a century of British life

A coloured engraving of Richard Whittington, wearing red robes and hat

How the real Dick Whittington lives up to his pantomime

A graphic of a detective looking through a magnifying glass at an old fountain pen with a skull on the nib.

The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain

Portrait of Elizabeth Linley

8 scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Miniature of Ecgfrith, king of the English, along with his bishop Trumwine, visiting Cuthbert at Lindisfarne

How the Kingdom of Northumbria changed Anglo-Saxon England

Robert the Bruce addresses his troops ahead of Bannockburn in a 20th-century engraving.

Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?

c1880, the Paris rugby team.

When Vichy France banned rugby

Anglo-Saxon thegns

Q&AWho was Eadnoth the Staller?

Charles VI and Henry V entering Paris

What if…Henry V hadn't died in 1422?

Painting depicting the Spanish Armada

Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada

Alicia von Rittberg as Princess Elizabeth in Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming ElizabethThe real history behind the new Tudor drama

An illustration of King Arthur's coronation, from the 13th-century Flores Historiarum

Was King Arthur real? Discover the legend of the 'once and future king'

King Arthur and his knights return to Camelot (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Q&AWhere was Camelot?

An early Peace People march in Belfast’s Woodvale Park

What was the Peace People movement in Northern Ireland?

Roger Mortimer and Isabella of France shown with their army in a 15th-century illustration. In the background, the body of Edward II’s favourite, Hugh le Despenser, is being quartered (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

Roger Mortimer: the rebel baron who escaped the Tower to challenge Edward II. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.