Death

Illustration of a mummy with mask

How to make an Egyptian mummy in 6 steps

Queen Victoria

The final days and death of Queen Victoria

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Robert Hutchinson on the death of Henry VIII. (Image by Getty Images)

The decline and death of Henry VIII . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What happened when Thomas Becket, was brutally murdered in his cathedral? (Image by Getty Images)

Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

Surviving the gallows: the Georgian hangings that didn’t go to plan

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English suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), who led the movement to win the vote for women in Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)

Women in black: the surprising history of widows . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The White Ship disaster

The White Ship disaster "The most disastrous moment in British maritime history" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Charles Spencer talks about the White Ship disaster on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

The White Ship: a medieval royal tragedy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII’s final ‘kindness’

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster

Priest offering the heart taken from a living human victim to the Aztec sun god and god of war, Huitzilopochtli. Print of facsimile from Aztec Codex, published 1904. Human Sacrifice (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

King George VI and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth

The death of King George VI: what happened?

Alexander the Great

Where is Alexander the Great buried? And other questions about his death…