People watching the Royal Wedding

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Charles VI of France (1380–1422)

Owain Glyndwr: The last Welsh Prince of Wales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Recipes from the Tudor kitchen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Francis Drake

Life of the Week: Sir Francis Drake

The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lady Margaret Douglas, a close relative of Henry VIII. Her romantic liaisons landed her in the Tower of London on more than one occasion. (Photo by Florilegius/SSPL/Getty Images)

Margaret Douglas: The forgotten Tudor princess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A vintage photograph showing an unknown man standing behind a stall selling lemonade, root beer and ice cream – among other things.

Q&AWho invented lemonade?

In pictures: Medieval women

A Royal Navy battle

The Royal Navy’s American disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Monument to Alexander von Humboldt

Books interview with Andrea Wulf: "Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Was Henry VIII a good king?

Bletchley Park

WW2 espionage: The spies who surprised me. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Death of General Wolfe

The Georgian craze for popular history

The end of the Cold War and British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

White horse of Uffington

Who were the Celts?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frank McEachran: the real-life model for The History Boys’ star Hector. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III: A hostage to fortune. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy do we say ‘in the limelight’?

Students at the Royal High School celebrate their A-Level results outside school in August 2007 in Bath, UK. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

BBC History Magazine

Study History: Tips from an admissions tutor

Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

BBC History Magazine

Historian Lisa Jardine dies aged 71

The Last Kingdom and Agincourt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

17 unmissable battles podcasts

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. This is one of several replicas of a portrait by Sir Peter Lely. Cromwell is supposed to have said: “I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me… but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts and everything as you see me. Otherwise, I will never pay a farthing for it.”

Why do we say 'warts and all'?

Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

Q&AWhat is the earliest evidence for a battle in Britain?

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Brontës and a revolutionary artist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragette: ‘a moving and inspiring film that must be seen’

A brief history of Royal Navy search & rescue 1915–2015. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.