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Illustration depicting the migration of people across the world

How has migration changed the world?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Behind the scenes of The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

Batting for the British Empire: how Victorian cricket was more than just a game. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo the MagnificentThe astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Renaissance Florence

Migrants at a detention centre in Texas, March 2019

The complex history of concentration camps. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

QuizCan you spot the real historical remedies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What’s next for period drama?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Theodore Roosevelt visiting a US army camp, c1918. (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The great American U-turn: from isolationism to WW1 combatants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vikings and Franks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

The forgotten matriarch of the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Wallace on trial in 1305

William Wallace: who was the Scottish rebel who defied Edward I?

Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British police history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Windsors in exile. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn's youth: how her years on the continent made her a match for Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'The Journey of the Magi' by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Piero the Gouty for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It features his son Lorenzo, who would become known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, as one of the three kings

“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

Censorship: waging war on free speech. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history hidden in British heritage sites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benin Bronzes at the British Museum In London

What are the Benin Bronzes and why are they important? Explore the significance of the controversial treasures

A plaque which decorated the palace of the Benin Obas, The Obas butchers sacrificing a cow, the most prestigious animal sacrifice

Benin: a kingdom cast in bronze, brought to ruin by Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

The legend of Thomas Crapper, the man who didn't invent the toilet

A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Byzantines and a flamethrower

General ancient history

Q&AWhat was Greek fire?

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

Henrietta Maria: Charles I’s warrior queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.