People watching the Royal Wedding

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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)

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Study History: Tips from an admissions tutor

Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

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Historian Lisa Jardine dies aged 71

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

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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.

Portrait of King Henry VIII

History heroNathaniel Parker chooses Henry VIII (1491-1547). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ruthven Barracks

The LibraryHistory Explorer: The Jacobite uprisings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the Georgian underclass

The power of the Georgian underclass

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama's portraits of a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Scottish history: 9 steps from Union to Referendum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How significant is Scotland’s ‘No’ vote? Historians debate

The Somme and the Jacobites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Black Market camera seller

Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 Victorian recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norwich castle

History explorer: The Norman conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mob sets fire to Newgate Prison during the Gordon Riots

Taxing Catholics: how one Georgian government targeted a religious community. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The mahogany wooden interior of the Glasgow School of Art

My history hero: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.