People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

A c1638 oil painting of Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny

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History heroJulia Donaldson chooses Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny (d1650). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

Iron Age

A brief guide to the British Iron Age

Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Why is Harold Godwinson a hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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17th-century London: a city shaped by catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

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Lucy Worsley on Blitz Spirit: the courageous stories of six Londoners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Dark Ages: a ‘black hole’ in Britain’s history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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1962: London’s big freeze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Tudor with her five stepmothers

Tudor

Mary Tudor and her five stepmothers: what was their relationship like?

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Edward I’s letters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US

Victorian

Elizabeth BlackwellThe ‘first female doctor’, who entered medicine to prove a point

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Cary Grant: from humble beginnings to Hollywood icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Blitz spirit or broken morale?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death

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'Female husbands': the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale's classic 1931 film

Georgian

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

The ruins of the once magnificent Roche Abbey

Tudor

The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision?

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Anglo-Saxon

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

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Why Charles I had to die. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of Robin Hood, the heroic archer in English folklore who supposedly robbed the rich and gave to the poor. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Medieval

Robin Hood: 7 myths about the legendary outlaw of Sherwood Forest

Sutton Hoo helmet Anglo-Saxon

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The discovery at Sutton Hoo: when the Dark Ages were lit up. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sutton Hoo excavations are the focus of a new film, 'The Dig'. Carey Mulligan stars as Edith Pretty, and Ralph Fiennes portrays Basil Brown

Second World War

The Dig: the real history of the remarkable Sutton Hoo excavation

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

20th Century

Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

Queen Victoria smiling

Victorian

Q&ADid Queen Victoria really say "We are not amused"?

Did Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (pictured) ever meet? (Photos by Getty Images)

Second World War

Q&ADid Churchill and Hitler ever meet?

A scene from an early rugby union game

Victorian

The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?

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Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The inner courtyard of the old pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum, with its five towering bottle ovens. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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History explorerThe Gladstone Pottery Museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell

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Annie Gray“For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Student nurse Dorothy Norris

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A brief guide to the history of the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The NHS: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Victoria

Victorian

Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

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