Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV

Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

A revolutionary engineer and Victoria’s Indian confidant. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King James II of England and VII of Scotland (1633 - 1701), c. 1680. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A king without a crown: James VII and II’s years in exile

Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

How could the son of Henry VIII become Edward VI?

Through foreign eyes: the forgotten ambassadors to the Tudor court

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

Black British history and Charles I’s children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images)

Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066

The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

The Norman Conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne

Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The search for Henry I: what you need to know

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

Eleanor of Aquitaine.

History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the central image, leading Fifth Monarchists are executed on 19 January 1661 following the bloody failure of their uprising. Their leader, Thomas Venner, was hanged, drawn and quartered. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Soldiers of the Apocalypse

On the trail of the Yorks: 8 places associated with Richard III’s family

Two King Edwards. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers

Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

Suzannah Lipscomb & Dan Jones discuss Henry VIII's final two wives: Catherine Howard & Katherine Parr

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb discuss Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I's court

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

Hadrian's travels