People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

A statue of Oliver Cromwell stares downwards, against a red background

Stuart

The dark truth about Oliver Cromwell

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight an adaptation of the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

Medieval

“An intoxicating triumph true to the grandeur of the poem”: a historian’s review of The Green Knight

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The burgundy cover of a British passport

Medieval

Q&AWhen were passports as we know them today first introduced?

John of Gaunt shown in a c16th-century portrait

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A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

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A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

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How George V won the war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Matthew Stevens tackles listener questions on the history of the Welsh regions during the Middle Ages

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General Early Modern

The Bloody Code: your guide to the severe legal system

Tostig Godwinson, brother of King Harold II of England, and King Harald Hardrada of Norway receive the submission of the city of York

Norman

Hastings, Stamford Bridge and Gate Fulford: three battles that lost England

The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Medieval

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: what’s the story?

Portrait of Prince Philip

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Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, on their wedding day

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Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

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Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, the top above water

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An illustration of Henry VII, surrounded by Tudor roses. In the background there are shadows of those who challenged for his throne.

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Medieval

Q&ADid the Scottish mass-murdering cannibal Sawney Bean actually exist?

A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle

Georgian

Q&AWhy do we say 'Peeping Tom'?

Photo of a man on a penny-farthing

Victorian

Q&AHow dangerous was the penny-farthing?

An Anglo-Saxon cross from the church of St Michael

Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon conversion: the coming of the cross (at the point of a sword)

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

A set of Tudor faces laid out on playing cards

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Historian Bettany Hughes in front of the Rock of Gibraltar

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Bettany Hughes“We were trying to find stories that tell us about resilience – history as a kind of therapy”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Princess Elizabeth

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Soldiers disembark a landing craft with a battle on the beach beyond

20th Century

How to win a 20th-century battle

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A portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton

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Workers lower the bodywork of a Standard Vanguard car onto its chassis in a factory

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