Modern - Getty Images

General Modern

Frank McEachran: the real-life model for The History Boys’ star Hector

Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

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

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history

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

A brief history of Royal Navy search & rescue 1915–2015

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama's portraits of a nation

New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain

Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch

Second World War

In pictures: The Blitz

Winston Churchill with a bulldog mascot as he leaves the Wanstead Conservative Club in his Woodford, Essex constituency on general election day, 23 February 1950. (Photo by Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

Q&AWhat is the significance of the British Bulldog?

A 'full English' breakfast

Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?

Q&AWhere does the word ‘posh’ come from?

The ‘Spruce Girls’ wearing their specially made wooden bathing suits in 1929. (Credit: © Historic Collection / Alamy)

Second World War

6 weird inventions in history

Life of the Week: Andy Warhol

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda

Q&AWhere did the famous portrait of Che Guevara come from?

The daily hustle and bustle in the busy fishing port of Newlyn in Penzance, Cornwall, c1870. (Photo by Gibson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Top 10 historical Cornish words

In pictures: Blackpool beach through time

Timeline: the countdown to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

7 things that happened in August through history

In pictures: kings and queens through history

Elton John sings Candle in the Wind at Princess Diana’s funeral, September 1997. (© Getty)

The LibraryThe history of Britain’s talent factory

5 historical space travel facts

Second World War

12 things you should know about Churchill’s Second World War tunnels under the White Cliffs of Dover

5 facts about the history of the Women’s Institute

Life of the week: Constantine Karamanlis

Douglas Jardine

Life of the Week: Douglas Jardine

General prehistory

My favourite place: Ronald Hutton

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club