Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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The battle of Agincourt and the Spanish communists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The trials of Joan of Arc. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture of a lion and tiger fighting

Q&AWhere was England's first zoo?

Wolf Hall: author Hilary Mantel talks Tudors, historical accuracy and winning the Man Booker Prize. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell: The rise and fall of Henry VIII’s henchman

Fresh views on the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mad is tied to a stake and burned alive as a crowd, including priests, look on

Heresy: a brief history

The long history of the Crusades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

Richard III had lavish diet of swan and wine, new forensic study reveals

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

Richard III and dirty Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

A portrait of Richard III.

Inside the mind of Richard III

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

My favourite place: Janina Ramirez

Q&AWhere does the name ‘London’ come from?

Richard III's lost chapel 'has been found'

Historians identify 'spot where Richard III was killed in battle'

The princes in the Tower

Did Richard III murder the princes in the Tower? You debate

Photo of cat in cat flap

Q&AHow old is the cat flap?

Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The miracle of Henry VI: how the weak medieval king became a 'saint'

Richard III’s hair and eye colour ‘to be revealed’

Photo of Mount Grace Priory

Q&Ahttps://www.historyextra.com/period/what-was-a-charterhouse/

Watercolour painting of the Battle of Agincourt

Q&AWho paid for the arrows in the Battle of Agincourt?

Q&AAre there any rulers of England that don’t appear on the usual lists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Q&AWhat overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

History’s most surprising statistics

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London