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Michelangelo was a Renaissance sculptor, painter and visionary. This 17th-centruy portrait was completely shortly after his death

Your guide to Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo

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

What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The Terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cellini: the “supreme scoundrel of the Renaissance”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Long read |The man at Sutton Hoo

George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery

Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What if...The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking women gathered outside a home - illustration

What was life like for Viking women?

How our hunger for land shaped history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Battle Of Towton, fought on 29 March 1461, was brutal clash in the driving snow fought during the Wars of the Roses

The battle of Towton: did the biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil take place during the Wars of the Roses?

Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Roman medicine: 6 ways people stayed healthy in ancient Rome

Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry HistoryExtra podcast series title card

Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 1: When, Where & Why. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world

Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

Vikings under the microscope: what can science tell us about Viking life?

The Thirty Years’ War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rebels, hostages and diplomats: royal women of the crusader states. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich

To beard or not to beard? Facial hair through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revolution on the western front

Richard III: your guide to the last Yorkist king of England

A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

Q&ADid George Washington have wooden teeth?

Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

Caesar's British gamble

Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

Bucephalus: why is Alexander the Great's horse famous?

The western front: a cauldron of innovation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great: all you need to know about the empire builder and military genius

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

The lost figure of the Bayeux Tapestry: where is Edgar Ætheling?

Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

History heroBobby Seagull chooses Stephen Hawking (1942–2018). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?