Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

Photo of a remembrance poppy

First World War

Q&AWhere do the red poppies come from?

Berlin Wall in November 1989

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The story of Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century illustration depicting the battle of Agincourt.

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Books interview with Ranulph Fiennes: "The Hundred Years' War was caused by my ancestor's advice being ignored". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Avaldsnes Church, Norway

Viking

My favourite place: Avaldsnes, Norway

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The Berlin Wall and the return of Charles II. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Why Napoleon merits the title 'the Great'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval

A brief history of how people communicated in the Middle Ages

A portrait of Joan of Arc,

Medieval

The real Joan of Arc

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The battle of Agincourt and the Spanish communists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain

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The rise of Homo sapiens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Red Army tank drivers on a street in the city of Rakov, Poland

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1939: When Poland was torn to pieces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An elevated view over Stiftskirche & surrounding township, Baden-Baden, Germany

20th Century

My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

First World War

Why is WW1 called the 'Great War'?

From a collection of reflective landscape photographs of the Somme battlefield.

First World WargalleryThe Somme battlefield revisited

Photo of people eating spaghetti

Period

Q&ADid the Italians invent spaghetti?

A mad is tied to a stake and burned alive as a crowd, including priests, look on

Medieval

Heresy: a brief history

Bust of Emperor Alexander Severus

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Quiz - Would you have been accepted to join the army and fight in WW1 in August 1914?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colour image of military guns during World War One

First World WargalleryThe First World War in colour

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James Bond and Vichy France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Janice Hadlow

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Janice Hadlow"The picture of George III’s family is often sad – these are genuinely thwarted lives". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. (Getty Images)

Ancient Greece

My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

Roman

5 facts about Caligula

A detail of a fresco of Hannibal riding his elephant. It is estimated he took as many as 40 elephants when he marched an army across the Alps and into northern Italy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Roman

Q&AHow many elephants did Hannibal take over the Alps?

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

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Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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10 things you (probably) didn't know about the bloody eastern front in 1914

Photo of a poppy growing in a preserved WWI trench

First World War

Q&ADid the Somme offensive achieve anything?

Relief of a charioteer

Roman

Q&AWho was the highest-paid sportsman in history?

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

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The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

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