Period

Sobriety, royal presents and Victorian-era musings on failure: an unexpected history of New Year

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Charles Darwin and the Beagle: how the voyage transformed our understanding of the world

2020 Christmas history podcast quiz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael WoodThe story of China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

First World War

Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London

Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Your guide to Alexander Hamilton, plus 6 fascinating facts about the founding father

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. (Photo by David Lee/Netflix)

Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

Christmas ghost stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama

Monument to Prince Vladimir the Great in Moscow

Q&AWho were the Kievan Rus and what do they have to do with the Vikings?

The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

The love lives of medieval queens

Habsburg dynasty: Maria Theresa, her husband Francis I

The Habsburgs: the dynasty that wouldn’t die

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?

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

Historian Margaret Macmillan

"To destroy a library is to erase part of the cultural memory of humankind": Margaret MacMillan on war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A WW2 story of survival. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Qing dynasty emperor Kangxi

The voices of China: 5 perspectives on an extraordinary past

2020: the historians’ verdict

Were the suffragettes terrorists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vahalla is depicted as a round-topped building in this funerary stone from 8th-century Sweden

Valhalla: fighting and feasting in the Viking warrior afterlife

A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway. (Images by Getty)

Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings' world from 5 perspectives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A miller and a donkey

9 things you could do with a medieval ass

Ten things to do with a medieval donkey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.