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Agrippina the Younger. (Photo by Alamy)

Agrippina the Younger: a Roman woman of great power . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I’s love life: was she really a ‘Virgin Queen’?

Illustration of Isabella of France. From the book ‘Our Queen Mothers’ by Elizabeth Villiers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Isabella of France: the rebel queen

Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family. (Image Credit: BBC/Wall to Wall Media/Jack Coathupe)

Danny Dyer is “making people think again” about history, say historians

Irish rugby fans in London for the international match between Ireland and England at Twickenham Stadium, 13 February 1937. (Photo by E Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rugby warriors: the rugby-playing heroes of the First and Second World War

Winston Churchill. (Photo by Getty Images)

Did Churchill’s postwar speeches save the world?

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English journalist and broadcaster Jenni Murray at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2017. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

World-changing women . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull. (Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson: the rise and fall of America’s founding fathers

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The Endurance, the ship of Ernest Shackleton

My history hero: Ernest Shackleton (d1922) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jews waiting on a Warsaw street for the deportation to a concentration camp.(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Should more be done to remember the Holocaust in Britain?

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Did the Age of Exploration bring more harm than good?

James Cook, commander of HMS 'Endeavour', meets Tahitians in an 18th-century engravings. The ship's naturalist Joseph Banks declared the Polynesian island

How the arrival of Europeans rocked the native cultures of Tahiti and Australia

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Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Legacies of the Holocaust . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aleksander Kulisiewicz, wearing a concentration camp uniform, performs at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Italy, 1965. (Image: Kulisiewicz family)

The Library Songs of the Holocaust: the music of Aleksander Kulisiewicz

An 11th-century depiction of the Anglo-Saxon priest Wulfstan, who feared that Viking raids on England signalled the end of the world. (Image by Mary Evans)

Viking apocalypse: the invasion that spelled doom for the Anglo-Saxons