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The French Revolution: Everything you need to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Triple Bond Broken: The Destruction of the House of York. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Atlantic slave war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Evil May Day

Flames and violence: the Evil May Day Riots that shook Tudor London

An Anglo-Saxon warlord. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Naming of St John the Baptist, c12th century. From a wall painting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval baby names: what were people called in the Middle Ages?

Ancient wisdom with Neil Oliver. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Harold Godwinson being crowned king of England. Harold was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England and was killed by William, Duke of Normandy at the battle of Hastings in 1066. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

1066: eight days that rocked England

Black radical: William Monroe Trotter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

In profile: Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx

Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet

Edward the Confessor: England’s holy hardman

A painting of 1616 depicts the Moriscos boarding ships to sail from the port of Valencia

The 17th-century expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: what happened?

Margaret MacMillanWhy are there wars?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Your guide to Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn

The dispossession of Native Americans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

"We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that's not the reality": Margaret MacMillan on humanity's compulsion to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Abraham Lincoln

Q&ADid Abraham Lincoln’s beard win him the election?

Halloween postcard

10 things you didn’t know about the history (and mystery) of Halloween

Medieval daily life: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. National Portrait Gallery, London. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

The lost heirs of Henry VIII: Alison Weir on Katherine of Aragon’s failed pregnancies

Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

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

Actor Stephanie Levi-John as Lina in 'The Spanish Princess'

Catalina: the real history of The Spanish Princess favourite

Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth II

In profile: Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe's unholiest holy men

In 802 Charlemagne took delivery of an elephant, sent to him by Harun al-Rashid, the caliph in Baghdad. Here, a manuscript illumination from a late 12th century English Latin bestiary. (Image by Alamy)

8 turning points in medieval European history

The storming of Beziers

Medieval turning points. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.