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Tourists at the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza in 1923

Who was ancient Egypt’s most successful pharaoh?

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes

Portrait of Prince Philip

Prince Philip: the loyal consort

A modern illustration shows prisoners of war being sold into slavery

Slavery in ancient Greece: what was life like for enslaved people?

Montage of three talented teenagers. From left to right: Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great, musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and chess player Judit Polgár

The flush of youth: nine talented teenagers from history

An ancient Greek vase depicting sexual intercourse

A brief history of sex and sexuality in Ancient Greece

Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, on their wedding day

The Prince Philip Years: how did Britain change while he was Queen Elizabeth II's consort?

A stone bust of the Greek god Dionysius

The gods and their whims: your guide to ancient Greek religion

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad

Jihad and the British empire

A trieme is rowed towards a naval battle in a scene depicting the battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC

The ancient Greeks at war: hoplites, the phalanx and the greatest battles

Ancient Greek statesman Solon sits on a throne, with a subject petitioning him

Who’s who in ancient Greece? Meet 14 influential ancient Greeks

From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history

A stone statue of Achilles

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Achilles Heel’?

An ancient Greek vase depicts animal sacrifice of a cow by two women

Your guide to Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know

World history in 100 moments

The death of Domitian: how aristocrats conspired against the Roman emperor

Extraordinary hoaxes of the 18th century

Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, the top above water

Britain’s nuclear deterrent: a brief history

An illustration of Henry VII, surrounded by Tudor roses. In the background there are shadows of those who challenged for his throne.

Henry VII: the greatest pretender

Dancers in a nightclub

Aids: the epidemic that changed Britain

Q&ADid the Scottish mass-murdering cannibal Sawney Bean actually exist?

Empress Maria Theresa, a portrait

Maria Theresa: empress, warrior, matriarch

A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Battle of Britain myths

A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle

Q&AWhy do we say 'Peeping Tom'?

An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses

“A dead whale or a stove boat”: whaling in the 19th century

An illustration showing a woman 'Arib al-Ma’muniyya, playing an instrument while four men listen. A chess board is in the foreground

'Arib al-Ma’muniyya: the enslaved medieval woman who sang her way to wealth

An Israeli pilot after the raid on Entebbe

Operation Thunderbolt: Was the 1976 'raid on Entebbe' a brilliant rescue?

Hitler’s war on “degenerate art”