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An illustration depicting King Arthur fighting the Saxons, from the Rochefoucauld Grail. The absence of a clear and present origin for King Arthur has created a ‘void’ which many are keen to fill, says Miles Russell. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The real King Arthur: why are we so obsessed with trying to solve the mystery?.

Medieval queens: everything you wanted to know.

At home with the medieval aristocracy.

A royal banquet in the 13th century. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #14: What did an aristocratic household eat in the Middle Ages? And who was Eleanor de Montfort?.

Left: Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day, 29 July 1981. Right: Prince William and Catherine Middleton on their wedding day, 29 April 2011. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history.

Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate.

The original ‘Big Three’ at Livadia Palace in Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. None of them came away from the summit with everything they had hoped for. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to...The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945

Statue of King Richard I outside the Palace of Westminster in London

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #13: Why aren’t monuments to medieval figures included in the statues debate, and was there racism in the Middle Ages?.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, during their first visit to England after the Duke's abdication, September 1939. (Photo by Getty Images)

Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson and the Abdication crisis.

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806. (Photo by IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo)

The dark side of Alexander Hamilton

The capture of Jerusalem in 1099

How the First Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099.

Q&AWho was St Swithin?

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

A brief history of the English rose

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

Aftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich.

Portrait head of Roman Emperor Nero circa AD 59-64. (Photo by Alamy)

Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?.

The death of a dream: why Europe's great year of revolution in 1848 failed

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know.

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #12: secrets of the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

Stained glass window of King Alfred the Great

Exclusive podcastThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

A miniature from the Codex Justinianus

Plague, famine and sudden death: 10 dangers of the medieval period

'Tippoo's Tiger', made for Tipu Sultan. (Photo by Alamy)

Museums and colonialism.

German Heinkel HE-111 bombers fly over Britain during a mission in September 1940

8 reasons why the Luftwaffe didn’t stand a chance of beating the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones as the Schuyler sisters in 'Hamilton'. (Image: Disney+)

The women of Hamilton: Angelica, Eliza and… Maria Reynolds

HistoryExtra Academy Roman Britain: course certificate.

Wolfson Prize winner 2020 David Abulafia. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Exclusive podcastDavid Abulafia on The Boundless Sea.

Tom Hanks in 'Greyhound' (2020)

Second World War

The real history that inspired WW2 film Greyhound

Phyllis Schlafly

The woman who opposed equality with men: Phyllis Schlafly and the real history behind Mrs. America.

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery.