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Portrait of a young Queen Victoria, c1850, by F Winterhalter

How the killing of Queen Victoria’s personal chef changed Anglo-German relations

A recruitment poster used during the First World War, c1915.

Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914

Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorerExtravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold

Troops on a night raid during the First World War

Jeremy Paxman: "The war finished Britain off in many respects". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)

1848: the year of revolutions

A glass of wine and dish

Q&AWhich are the oldest surviving restaurants in London?

Author Linda Colley.

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

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold

BBC History Magazine

Solving the mystery of the Elephant Man?

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts

Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

BBC History Magazine

Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

A Christmas card from the First World War

First World War

First World War Christmas cards

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bernard Montgomery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

The race to save western Europe's 'rarest historic buildings'

First World War

Conspiracy to murder?

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror

BBC History Magazine

Last living British person born in 1800s dies

BBC History Magazine

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1715