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Fingers, frogs and fairies: the fashion for fortune telling in the 15th and 16th centuries

The history of Africa: why we need to look much deeper than slavery and colonisation

The rise of the Nazis and the importance of heeding warnings

"I felt very alone in a world gone horribly mad": the experiences of evacuees in WW2

England’s forgotten medieval hero: how John, Duke of Bedford carried on Henry V's fight

A 20th-century painting shows John applying his seal to the 1215 charter

Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered

"Nothing matches being with Alexander the Great on foot in the Hindu Kush"

An illustration of the future King Edward VI of England with his whipping boy (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

“Literally whipped”: the boys who took the beatings meant for royal bottoms

Did Britain really rule the waves?

Jane Austen: life of the week

The princess who fled Romanov Russia

The Opium Wars: everything you wanted to know

A battle taking place in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Making a historically accurate videogame: how Warhorse took on the task in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

An engraving of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett for Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice' (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Honeymooning with your mother-in-law? The truths of Regency romance

Queen Catherine the Great and (inset) a horse

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse?

Rome's most scandalous emperors

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

The royal threesome that rocked Anglo-Saxon England

A c1300 depiction of a man paying taxes

Do you know the correct date of Magna Carta? Here’s why you might be wrong

Farmers standing in a field

Where does the term redneck come from?

Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?

The forgotten JFK assassination plot

John F Kennedy in 1960 (left) and would-be assassin Richard Pavlick

The JFK assassination attempt you’ve never heard of

The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know

A farmer in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

10 things you need to know about medieval Bohemia before you play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Kuttenberg as seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

The real history behind Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: how Kutná Hora became the silver crown of medieval Bohemia

A Japanese woodblock print, c1855, depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu, and the god Takemikazuchi subduing it with the kaname-ishi stone (Photo by Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

General History

Why is a mythical catfish to blame for earthquakes in Japan?

From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters

Maria Theresa

General Early Modern

The incredible Habsburg empress you’ve never heard of: who was Maria Theresa?

How monasteries powered medieval Europe