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BBC History

William Shakespeare died 400 hundred years ago, on 23 April 1616 – and to mark the anniversary we’ve...

It is surely the most famous date in English history. On 14 October 1066 William of Normandy’s army...

From the crumbling of Roman rule in the fifth century AD until the triumph of the Normans (themselve...

The medieval era is often viewed through the eyes of the elites: the kings, queens, knights and chur...

Spies are everywhere. Or, at least, the fictional ones are. Every year a host of new books, films an...

Just like the Tudors who preceded them, the Stuarts reigned (over a united kingdom, at least) for li...

Royal Women

Through a compilation of the best articles from [i]BBC History Magazine[/i], plus several new pieces...

ONE HUNDRED AND fifty years ago this July, Union and Confederate armies clashed close to the Pennsyl...

Who could fail to be fascinated by the ancient world? From the pyramids of Egypt to the great empero...

Central to three major faiths, the land that is now Israel and the Palestinian territories has a glo...

Four of this country’s Hanoverian kings gave their name to a dynamic era characterised by immense so...