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Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waves to the crowd at Heston Airport and declaims "Peace in our Time" after returning from signing the Munich Agreement. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

Did appeasement cause the Second World War?

Camille and Lucile Desmoulins

How the architects of the 'Terror' after the French Revolution ended up among its victims. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antony and Cleopatra meet for the first time

What if...Antony and Cleopatra had won the battle of Actium?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fern Riddell

Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The vanquishers of the Bastille before the Hôtel de Ville, 14 July 1789. Found in the Collection of Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

What triggered the French Revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The decapitation machine now known as the guillotine was not a French invention and wasn't invented by Joseph Guillotin. (Image by Getty Images)

Q&ADid the French invent the guillotine?

The Highland Clearances: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Running to escape the horrors of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colourised portrait of Anton Chekhov, from 1901

History heroWilliam Boyd chooses Anton Chekhov (1860–1904). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The glamour & danger of Cairo’s 1920s nightlife scene. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Marcus Aurelius and a detail on Marcus Aurelius’s column in Rome

Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s reluctant killer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England's World Cup-winning captain, Bobby Moore (1941–93) kisses the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy after England's 4-2 win over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final at Wembley Stadium, London. Also pictured are Moore's team-mates George Cohen, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

In pictures: when England won the football World Cup

James VI and I.

Was James VI and I murdered?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII.

Did the Tudors invent the Wars of the Roses?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of William Barnes. The accomplished linguist wanted to adopt a form of English purged of foreign imports

National English: the language that would save England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) in 1807, the spire of the Church of Our Lady on fire, watercolour by Christofer Willem Eckersberg (1783-1853). Napoleonic Wars, Denmark, 19th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Britain’s illegal war: the story of the battle of Copenhagen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cnut's invasion of England: setting the scene for the Norman conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Viking Great Army: the latest discoveries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Post pandemic: how the years after the Black Death briefly became a ‘golden age’ for medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Glee-man, high-deedy & bendsome: a language to save England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Healthcare before the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Medici: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From hysteria to wandering wombs: women and medicine through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hogarth: the chronicler of the 18th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Marston Moor. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The battle of Marston Moor: what happened?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Digging into the Klondike gold rush. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A contemporary illustration of the Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789 – an event that helped create the idea of 'revolution' as we know it today. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting for freedom: the storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution

American billionaire Howard Hughes (shown here in a car in 1947) went from a visionary filmmaker to a germ-obsessed recluse, dying in 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

“His flesh had rotted, and his bed was full of worms”: 5 of history's most eccentric hermits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.