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How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown

How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown

The Soviet spy who couldn't love

The slave ship that changed history

Have we overlooked England’s local histories?

The making of the modern Middle East

Joan of Arc: inspirational leader or flawed failure?

The forgotten slave traders who shaped Britain

What is ‘Europe’, anyway?

Christianity, conflict and catastrophe: the life of CS Lewis

Was Napoleon III the world's first populist leader?

The Bayeux Tapestry blockbuster at the British Museum

The secrets of our DNA

What's it like to live in a royal palace?

Roman kings: myth, memory and the making of power

Philip Augustus: the Plantagenets’ greatest rival

Laura Ingalls Wilder: life of the week

How bullies shaped 19th-century America

Is there a royal sex scandal hidden in plain sight in the Bayeux tapestry?

Did Britain really 'keep calm and carry on' in WW2?

Did the Catholic Church support Hitler?

Frida Kahlo: life of the week

How the Americas transformed Tudor England

Preview: Master the medieval art of knowing yourself

Have we got ancient women's sexuality all wrong?

Adultery, assassination and Agatha Christie: the dark side of the hotel

Hedy Lamarr: life of the week

How WW2 transformed Asia

Preview: Was Jack the Ripper Queen Victoria's grandson?

How opium became a powerful global commodity

A wild history of partying

Yuri Gagarin: life of the week

How Christianity conquered the Roman empire

The Odyssey’s forgotten epilogue

Why did witches confess?

Inside the Maya storyworld

Zheng Yi Sao: life of the week

The Fifth Crusade: triumph, disaster and the battle for Egypt

Is the Odyssey myth or memory?

Renaissance Italy's firearm revolution

How blood banks saved Britain in WW2

Pericles: life of the week

Did Churchill save the monarchy?

Gods and monsters: the hidden stories of the Odyssey

Preview: Was Elizabeth I one of history’s greatest leaders?

The Bayeux Tapestry's secret code of tyranny and injustice

How to survive a day in the 14th century

Bess of Hardwick: life of the week

Alliance and acrimony: a history of Jewish-Muslim relations

Who wrote the Odyssey?

1966: The World Cup that changed a nation