Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

Membership

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Buckley and James Holland next to a fighter plane at the Imperial Museum, London

Second World War

The War in the West: James Holland in conversation

A painting depicting an experiment in an English school on a bird in an air pump, 1768. National Gallery, London. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Membership

How Europe won the race to prosperity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Swiss psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung in his library at home. (Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Membership

My history hero: Carl Jung (1875–1961). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Albert Einstein, standing in front of the Einstein Tower in 1926. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Membership

Q&AWhy the Einstein Tower was renamed – twice. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1883. (Photo By DEA/A Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Membership

My History Hero: Richard Wagner (1813–83). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)

Medieval

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Tudor

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

Membership

History quiz – Quakers and Kingmakers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Engraving of Henry VIII, king of England (Photo by Getty)

Membership

History quiz - holidays and Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Verona skyline with river Adige, bridges, Santa Anastasia Church and Torre dei Lamberti or Lamberti Tower at dawn view from Castel San Pietro, Italy. (Getty Images)

Renaissance

My favourite place: Verona, Italy

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

Membership

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps find another use for discarded helmets in France during the First World War. (Alamy)

Membership

Female Tommies: women in the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Membership

In thrall to the red planet: 5 facts about our view of Mars through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Martin Luther (centre) preaching. With one hand he points to popes, monks and cardinals going down the mouth of hell; with the other he points to the crucifix. (Getty Images)

Membership

Books interview with Eamon Duffy: "You could call the Reformation the original Brexit". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Irish national hero Hugh O'Neill, the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, makes a formal submission to the English following the suppression of his Irish rebellion, 1603. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Membership

The LibraryHugh O'Neill: Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British reenforcement land on 'Gold Beach' for the big push into the Normandy town of Caen

Membership

An eyewitness account of the Normandy landings, France, 1944. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

Membership

Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Tom Holland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the capture of Jerusalem during the third crusade

Membership

Crusader, deserter and traitor: the life and legacy of Raymond III of Tripoli. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anonymous engraving, master of the garden of love, 15th century, France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

7 ways to say “I love you” in medieval Europe

Membership

The Duke of Wellington and his ‘Dearest Georgy’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)

Georgian

My favourite place: Gibraltar

Medieval

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

Giuseppe Garibaldi in Naples, Italy, 1861. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Membership

God, gangs and Garibaldi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Bettany Hughes on the history of Istanbul. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman ruins in Ancient Ostia with the tenements of Serapide

Roman

FeatureFive facts about Roman insulae

The siege of Orleans

Membership

Q&ADid castle defenders really pour boiling oil down on attackers?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Roman

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

Section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a woman and child fleeing from a burning house. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Membership

The Anglo-Saxons’ last stand. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

You're currently on page 46

Prev Page

Next Page