Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

A portrait of Isabella of Castile

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Stained glass image of King Cnut

Viking

Your guide to King Cnut: the fierce Danish warrior who ruled England

What began as small raids on British coastal towns soon developed into all-out war, as a Great Viking Army arrived with a very different aim: to conquer (Photo credit: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Coco Chanel photographed in Paris, c1936

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Coins depicting Viking longships

Viking

A brief history of the Vikings

The renowned poet Lord Byron has gone down in history for being “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. But his ancestors were hardly paragons of virtue. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Adultery, elopement and incest: the scandalous sex lives of the 18th-century Byrons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Period

Rewriting the past: the history that inspired Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Hollow victory: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, attends Paris VE Day celebrations. But many faced privation and uncertainty as the war drew to a close. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

20th Century

Your guide to the Great Depression

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

Second World War

A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

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Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene

Roman

Mary Magdalene: why do people want to believe she was a sinner and prostitute?

A depiction of the Norman army, from the Bayeux Tapestry

Norman

Everything you wanted to know about the 1066 Norman invasion and the battle of Hastings – but were afraid to ask

'The Landing of St Augustine in Kent', AD 597

General ancient history

Q&AWhen did Christianity first arrive in Britain?

Engraving of emperor Commodus's death

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Dance of Death, printed by Jacob Meydenbach, Germany 1492. (Photo by Alamy)

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Illustration of Elizabeth I in a cage

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Self portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi as a lute player (Photo by Getty Images)

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Children in Auschwitz

Second World War

The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

Tomb of Richard the Lionheart

Medieval

Q&AHow did Richard the Lionheart die? And where is he buried?

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An oil portrait of Charlemagne (c747–814), King of the Franks, by 15th/16th-century artist Albrecht Durer. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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The legacy of Charlemagne: how the king of the Franks continues to cast a shadow over Europe

Steve McQueen stars in the 1963 film that turned the 'Great Escape' into a symbol of Allied pluck and ingenuity. (Image by Alamy)

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Frances Griffiths poses with the fairies

20th Century

Fairies, rabbit births and an 'ancient' tiara: what are the greatest historical hoaxes?

Two scenes from the Chronique de St Denis, late 14th century. The left-hand scene depicts the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France in 1137. The scene on the right shows Louis departing by ship to go on the Second Crusade in 1147. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Victorian

From 'eyesore' to icon: a brief history of the Eiffel Tower

Victorian

Why did Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear?

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

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Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

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