Where history happened

My favourite place: Belgium

View of the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Johannes Vermeer's 'View of Delft’, 1661. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

My favourite place: Delft, Netherlands

Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War

The medieval hilltop village of Vézelay in north central France enjoys a spectacular location. (Photo by Andia/UIG via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vézelay, France

Queen Street Mill in Burnley. (Photo by Alamy)

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7 unusual historical sites in Britain and Ireland

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The ultimate guide to discovering history in Britain and overseas

A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. (Photo by Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Kathmandu

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. (Photo by Oliver Duerre/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Second World War

My favourite place: Berlin

The Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

The Valletta skyline – in the centre is St Paul's Anglican Cathedral and Carmelite Church. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Malta

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Aerial view on Westminster Abbey at night. (Photo by Pawel Libera/LightRocket via Getty Images)

7 of England’s best medieval buildings

The Grand Bridge at Blenheim. (Getty Images)

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Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

Britain's 10 best palaces

French troops under shellfire during the battle of Verdun. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

The LibraryVerdun - hell on Earth

A relief at the World Heritage site of Xanadu in Inner Mongolia, China. (Photo by Dreamstime)

My favourite place: Xanadu, China

The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: York Membery

Saranda Kolones, Kato Pathos Archaeological Park

My favourite place: Cyprus

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

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7 places that shaped the life of Richard III

Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

My favourite place: Dominic Sandbrook

8 facts about Old Sarum – an Iron Age fort, Roman settlement and medieval city