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A medieval illustration of women fighting and toiling alongside men during a siege

Crusader queens: the formidable female rulers of Jerusalem

The big questions of women’s history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Voices of China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

An illustration of a 17th century plague doctor

Fake historyHunting down false facts about the past

Exclusive podcastGame of Thrones’ medieval roots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of the battle of Moscow, 1942, first printed in Signal, a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 to 1945. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake

Formidable dynasties of the Italian Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

Vikings in North America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

"Far too little, too late": what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Shipwrecked in the Arctic: a 16th-century survival story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Author and biographer Max Adams (Photo by Alamy)

Max AdamsBritain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

Henry the Young King is crowned in 1170. (Wikimedia Commons)

The real King Arthur and his Lancelot? Henry the Young King's remarkable friendship with William Marshal

Crafting historical weapons for Wolf Hall and The Witcher. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

Prince Arthur, Catherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nathen AminHenry VII and the Tudor Pretenders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?