People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

Baked loves of bread

Medieval

Q&AWhy are there 13 items in a Baker's Dozen?

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A dinner scene from Downton Abbey, with large candlesticks on the table

Edwardian

Could you survive an Edwardian dinner party?

The daughter and great-niece of Henry VIII respectively, Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots didn't feel strong family ties when it came to their relationship. (Photo by Getty Images)

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King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret of United Kingdom. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family

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Archduchess Ileana’s great grandmother, Queen Victoria, whose birth certificate Ileana desperately needed to get hold of (Getty) 

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The portrait of Queen Elizabeth I known as the Ditchley portrait

Elizabethan

What did Queen Elizabeth I really look like at 60?

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Neil MacGregor photographed in London. “It seemed a good juncture, as Britain sets to leave the EU and operate alone on the world stage, to get a sense of how other countries view us,” he says. (Image by Chris McAndrew)

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Courtiers dancing La Volta in a scene from 1953 film The Sword And The Rose

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A 16th-century portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Stuart

Mary, Queen of Scots: the real history behind the film

A photo which was believed to be of the Loch Ness Monster

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The siege of Sevastopol

Victorian

Q&AWhy did Britain fight the Crimean War?

Robin Hood statue outside Nottingham Castle (Photo by Getty)

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The card game cribbage

General Early Modern

Q&AWhy do we say 'level pegging'?

A real Peaky Blinder mug-shot

VictoriangalleryIn pictures: what did the real Peaky Blinders look like?

Portrait of Prince Albert

Victorian

8 fascinating facts about Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert

The humble G&T truly sustained the troops of the British Empire. (Photo by ahirao_photo/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

General Modern

Q&AWhen did people start drinking gin and tonic?

An 18th-century public execution and crowd

Victorian

Q&AWhen did people stop attending public executions in Britain?

Statue of Lady Godiva

Anglo-Saxon

Q&ADid Lady Godiva ride naked in Coventry?

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General Modern

Top tips for studying history at university

William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne

Stuart

Q&AWhen was England last successfully invaded by a foreign power?

Mary, Queen of Scots and her ladies-in-waiting. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tudor

Mary, Queen of Scots: what happened to her ladies-in-waiting?

A beach scene at an Easter Bank Holiday at Southend, c1927. In 1871, the Bank Holiday Act established the first paid days off for commonworkers in England, while some senior managers could be granted extra leave. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Victorian

Q&AWhen were Brits first given leave from work to go on holiday?

In 1358, women finally gained full knightly acceptance in England when they began to be admitted to chivalric orders. (Photo by Eugene Antonov/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Medieval

Q&ACould a woman become a knight in medieval times?

Aerial view of Dover Castle

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Families in a London slum, c1900

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