September 2025

A colourful illustration inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing women embroidering scenes of medieval warriors, archers and a mounted knight onto a large piece of fabric. The tapestry is draped over a tree-stump table, with balls of coloured wool scattered around it.

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Michael Wood on women’s contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman with blonde hair and wearing a navy T shirt stands looking up towards the top left of the image. She has a large white earring and stands in front of some Roman ruins

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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An edited image of a man with long curly hair and a lacy ruff. The right hand side of his face is colour inverted so it appears black with a red eye

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting showing a black beast biting the leg of an orange man dressed in a loincloth

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What have the Etruscans ever done for us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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After Hiroshima: the atomic plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A montage of images showing a man standing in the ruins of Hiroshima; a man dressed smartly wearing circular glasses; and a Japanese family with two parents sitting down with five children around them

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Senkichi Awaya: the lost mayor of Hiroshima. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a king dressed in a green and orange robe. He is wearing a crown and holding a sceptre

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King Æthelstan: England's colossus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photograph shows a group of Japanese military men on a train, while some young women prepare to get on the carriage. A young woman looks back over her shoulder

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Kavita Puri on VJ Day: "We don't talk about the war in Asia – which was a messy, complicated conflict". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite illustration of four contenders for the English throne around the time of the Norman Conquest. From left to right are Harold Godwinson, Edgar Ætheling, Harald Hardrada and William the Conqueror, with Harold shown enthroned and William on horseback.

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1066: who was the rightful king?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dame Stephanie Shirley and Tommy Flowers

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My history heroDame Stephanie Shirley chooses Tommy Flowers

To the left, there is a black and white image of Queen Victoria. She is dressed in dark clothing and has her hair partially pulled back by a black fastening. Facing her, on the right is an image of John Brown, a bearded man wearing military uniform and a hat. Over them, there is a pink treatment with a rip in it

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How I uncovered Victoria's secret love: Historian Fern Riddell explains all. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.