People watching the Royal Wedding

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Excavation search for soldiers killed on Flodden battlefield

A poster from the First World War.

First World War

First World War posters

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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

Books interview: the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pilot recreates 1913 Circuit of Britain flight

Second World War

Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

A fresh look at Edward III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Margam Park, Port Talbot

Great Train Robbery gang: first-class thieves or criminals who got lucky?

Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford

A colourful painting from the 15th century showing several merchants gathered together

The LibraryMoving to medieval England

The LibraryJohnnie Walker: U-boat hunter in the Second World War

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The LibraryHistory Explorer: the rise of English Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

Q&AWhy did Britain and France not declare war on the Soviet Union when the Red Army marched on Poland in September 1939?

The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire

Smithills Hall, Bolton

Historical recipes

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels

The master of dressage

6 royal births that rocked a nation

Erddig, Wrexham

My history hero: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Artillery Memorial in London is a tribute to the immense power of artillery and its dominant role in the Great War. Pictured here is a bronze statue of a Royal Artillery driver, leaning back against the parapet in an attitude of exhaustion or contemplation. (Photo by View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: remembering the Great War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mick Aston obituary

General prehistory

Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

Nazi spies and Viking ships. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kidwelly Castle, Carmarthenshire

A woodcut depicting a witch hanging in England, c17th Century. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials

Three coal miners. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

History through the eyes of the working man