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Félix Kir in 1947, when he was the mayor of Dijon

Second World War

History heroSimon Farnaby chooses Félix Kir (1876–1968)

The decline and death of Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

"Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?" Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

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Brexit’s long historical roots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

"Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history": Robert Tombs on Britain's complex relationship with Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen?

Queen Victoria

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Editor’s pick: Lenin’s revolutionary train journey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(L to R) Isaac Newton, Henry VIII and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

How did people cope with ‘lockdowns’ of the past? And were they really all so productive?

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

19th century advert for snuff

Q&AWhat was snuff?

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

Georgian Britain: sex in high places

Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.

Think pieceOur dangerous devotion to the Second World War

The battle for Sicily, 1943. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill on roller skates

How the roller skating craze caught Churchill

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

German Jews in WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bizarre books and macabre manuscripts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Bonnie Prince Charlie: hero or coward?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.