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Black-and-white engraving depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. She rests her head on the block as an executioner raises an axe above her, surrounded by attendants and onlookers.

General History

Botched executions: 9 death sentences from history that didn’t go to plan

British troops surrender to the Argentines in Port Stanley

20th Century

The Falklands War: why did it happen?

Marines from the 40 Commando Anti-Tank Troop march towards Port Stanley

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What if...Argentina had won the Falklands War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A drawing depicting a German monoplane dropping bombs on Paris in 1914

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Creating fake Paris: why did one man build a hoax French capital?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"We shall never surrender": 14 quotes that have defined the past century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shakespeare didn't love his wife and he abandoned his family to move to London: are these 13 rumours about the playwright true?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of Roman communal toilets

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Tales of the toilet: a historical A–Z. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A women with a shocked face next to a calendar with the date of Friday the 13th

Medieval

Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

The Enola Gay aircraft, which dropped the first atomic bomb of the Second World War on Hiroshima.

Second World War

Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in WW2 justified?

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Michael Wood on amazing insights into medieval daily life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who shot first?Lexington and Concord. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Minutemen facing British soldiers on Lexington common

Georgian

What happened at the battles of Lexington and Concord?

The ‘Eye of Providence’, a symbol linked to the Illuminati, stares out from the reverse side of all US one-dollar bills

Georgian

Who were the Illuminati – and how can you join them?

Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony: how the last pharaoh's love affairs shaped Ancient Egypt's fate

Wrens worked as code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

Second World War

The female codebreakers of Bletchley Park

The assassination of Julius Caesar on the 'Ides of March'.

Roman

Q&AWhy do we need to beware the Ides of March?

Photo of King George V's funeral

20th Century

The death of King George V – and why his doctor hastened his demise

An open Bible on an altar

General ancient history

A history of the BibleWho wrote it and when?

A spiritual swastika on a lotus background.

Second World War

Why did Hitler choose the swastika as a Nazi symbol?

St Paul's Cathedral photographed through the smoke after a night when the German air force bombed London

Second World War

"War's greatest picture"? Inside the night St Paul's Cathedral survived the Blitz

A late 19th-century image shows a group of ‘pit lasses’, employed to work at the surface of coal mines. An earlier law had explicitly banned women from working below ground. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

From family to factory: women's lives during the Industrial Revolution

The opthalmoscope revolutionised ophthalmology, allowing physicians to examine the inside of the human eye. (Image by Getty Images)

Victorian

Victorian medicine: why the 19th century was a time of seismic medical change

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

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"An enlightened turn": how medicine (and the vaccination) developed in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

20th Century

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?

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InterviewCharlotte Lydia Riley: “We need to get rid of the idea that Britain was humanitarian in its imperialism. That needs to go”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aeronauts James Glaisher (left) and Henry Coxwell (right) pose in the basket of their hot air balloon

Victorian

The balloon-riding Victorians who courted disaster: the true story behind The Aeronauts

German tank at the battle of Kursk, 1943. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images)

Second World War

The 1943 battle of Kursk: was it the biggest tank battle in history?

Harry-Williams-Bulkeley sitting at a table with silver candlesticks

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My life in historyInternational head of silver at Christie’s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The poor man and the pilgrim receive hospitality at a monastery in this 13th century miniature (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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How to go on a medieval pilgrimage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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