Painting of a European marketplace

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A portrait of Isabella I of Castile. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

Isabella I of Castile: Europe’s greatest queen?

Viking ships arriving in Britain, c1130. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty

Anglo-Saxon

From the raid on Lindisfarne to Harald Hardrada's defeat: 8 Viking dates you need to know

Charles I's great weakness was that he made a strict distinction between his role as king, in which he could not compromise, and his personal role, which was entirely pleasant and courteous, says Sean Lang. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Stuart

8 of the nicest kings in history

Sir Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

20th Century

Who was Sir Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five? Plus 4 others who spied for the Soviets

Medieval

Is the world still living in the shadow of the crusades?

The Crown of Thorns allegedly worn by Christ during the Passion. It was one of the prized possessions in Notre-Dame Cathedral until April 2019 – when it was rescued by the inferno that gutted the building. (Photo by: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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"There was no feeling sorry for themselves": director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

First World War

Where was the Armistice signed?

A detail from the Bayeux tapestry depicting the conquest of England by the Normans. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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9 medieval battles more significant than Agincourt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agincourt was one of the major battles of the Hundred Years' War.

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Agincourt: what really happened. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Timothée Chalamet as Prince Hal

Medieval

“It’s hard to square Prince Hal’s pacifism with what we know about Henry V”: a historian’s review of The King

East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

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A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

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Michael Wood on a controversial term“As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

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Travel toLuxembourg: rural beauty and Gothic grandeur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon

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Trial by fire: how a fortress siege changed the course of World War One. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

20th CenturygalleryIn pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

Simon the cat

General Modern

10 top cats in history

1st May 1975: Three documents, for and against, published for the referendum on the Common Market

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The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette in deep mourning, while in prison

Georgian

The final days of Marie Antoinette

Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has "ceased to be a nation in retreat," declared the prime minister in the wake of the victory over Argentine forces.

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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

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Cardinal John Henry Newman

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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) (Photo by Getty Images)

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Orlando Figes on the transformation of Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry Hemming.

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Fake news in World War Two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Daisy Dunn.

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Soldiers at the battle of Arnhem

Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of Arnhem

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