Tales from the arena: Guy de la Bédoyère traces the bloody history of Rome’s gladiators, from pre-Roman times to the packed amphitheatres of the empire.

Five fascinating facts about... Victorian Britain: Teaching, tea, trains and telegrams: Ruth Goodman offers a fresh look at the 19th century.

How Paradise was Lost: Islam Issa explores the life of John Milton, the poet and polemicist whose great epic reflected his radical ideas and the tumultuous politics of his era.

“We need to understand the Nazis as human beings” Richard J Evans explores the motivations of Hitler’s followers.

QUEENS OF THE VICTORIAN UNDERWORLD - Six female criminals who scandalised society...

THE VIKINGS' SECRET WORLD
How ancient runes are unlocking the mysteries of the Nors

Medieval pigs on the loose
The swine that made a stink in the Middle Ages

Tales from the toilet
A 2,000-year history of the British loo

The farmer’s son who invented a Death Ray

American violence
The assassinations that shaped US history

Hoodwinking Hitler
Robert Hutton introduces a master of deception who played a key role in the Allies’ greatest triumphs of the Second World War.

The genius of Æthelstan
Michael Wood on the challenges of writing a biography of the shadowy but enormously influential Anglo-Saxon king.

Crusader criminals
Steve Tibble shows how soaring rates of murder and theft followed in the wake of waves of armed young men arriving in the Middle East.

The madcap Olympics
David Goldblatt tells the story of the 1900 Paris Games, where chaos and confusion triumphed.

The dark side of Robert the Bruce
Fiona Watson uncovers the brutal truth about Scotland’s national hero..

Greek warrior women
Daisy Dunn highlights the immense impact that women had on the course of the Greco-Persian Wars.

Horror in France
Robert Pike tells the story of the killing of 643 civilians by the SS in June 1944.

The Mughal Jane Austen
Ruby Lal on a princess whose prose shines a light on 16th-century India..

D-Day’s forgotten heroes
Nick Hewitt charts the extraordinary contributions of Allied sailors to the success of the Normandy landings.

How the Vikings viewed the world
Alicia Maddalena and Matthew Townend peer inside the Viking mind with the help of Norse poetry.

Inside Anne Boleyn’s bedchamber
Nicola Clark considers what the lives of six ladies-in-waiting to Henry VIII’s wives can tell us about the Tudor court..

The forgotten kingdom
Sophie Thérèse Ambler and James Morris tell the story of the mysterious northern stronghold of Cumbria.

Beethoven’s ode to peace
Bronwen Everill traces how a 19th-century musical masterpiece has became a symbol of brotherhood.

Roman slaves’ brutal lives
Guy de la Bédoyère contends that Roman society was built upon the servitude of its captive population..

Was the First World War decided on the eastern front?
Nick Lloyd traces the titanic struggle for supremacy in eastern Europe.

Beastly Victorians
Helen Cowie tells the story of the activists who took the fight to animal abusers in the 19th century.

Life beyond the margins
Sarah Gristwood reveals what diaries can tell us about women’s lives through the centuries..

Elizabeth v Mary
Nicola Tallis chronicles the sibling rivalry that soured the relationship between these two Tudor queens.

Knights! Camera! Action!
Robert Bartlett dissects Hollywood’s longstanding obsession with movies inspired by the Middle Ages..

Seven Wonders
From the Great Pyramid to the Hanging Gardens, Bettany Hughes reveals what drove the ancients to construct the Seven Wonders of the World.

Medieval breastfeeding
Hannah Skoda reveals what social attitudes to the nursing of newborns tell us about life in the Middle Ages..

Labour’s leap to power
A century ago, Ramsay MacDonald became Labour’s first prime minister. Richard Toye charts his entry to, and rapid departure from, Downing Street.

The British Schindler
Edward Abel Smith tells the story of Nicholas Winton, who helped save hundreds of children from the Nazis..

The brutality behind the Boston Tea Party 
Elinor Evans reveals how this touchstone event in the US national founding story was rooted in violence.

The many faces of Napoleon
David Andress and Laura O’Brien explore how the French leader’s reputation has fared over the two centuries since his death..

Hitler’s bungled revolution
Frank McDonough explores the Munich beer hall putsch, a bloody fiasco that the Nazi leader managed to turn to his advantage.

The A to B of medieval travel
From what to pack to which souvenirs to take home, Anthony Bale offers tips for people undertaking an international journey in the Middle Ages.

Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection
John Guy and Julia Fox chart the role that international diplomacy played in the rise and fall of Henry VIII’s second wife.

Empire on the brink
Matthew Parker chronicles the challenges facing the British empire as it reached its largest territorial extent..

Templars on trial
Steve Tibble asks why the Knights Templar were charged with horrific crimes in the 14th century.

The real Dick Whittington
Michael McCarthy tells the true rags-to-riches story of the four-times mayor of London..

Scotland’s greatest victory
Helen Carr explains how Robert the Bruce’s triumph at Bannockburn transformed the balance of power between two warring nations.

Northern powerhouse
Fiona Edmonds tells the story of an ambitious kingdom that dominated swathes of early medieval Britain.

Tokyo in ruins
In 1923, Japan’s capital was hit by an earthquake that killed over 100,000 people. Christopher Harding discusses the disaster..

Pax Romana
Tom Holland explains how the Roman empire maintained the peace across its rapidly developing realms – through the threat of lethal force.

Fighting for freedom
Rhiannon Davies highlights five milestones in the history of the US civil rights movement.

The greatest pharaoh?
Toby Wilkinson asks if Ramesses II was the most successful ruler of ancient Egypt – or just the most self-aggrandising.

The Tudor travel bug
Lauren Working and Emily Stevenson highlight six artefacts reflecting the English fascination with global exploration in the 16th century..

Elizabeth’s I divided loyalties
In public, the Virgin Queen lionised her father, Henry VIII. But, as Tracy Borman argues, in private she revered her late mother.

Death to the Sun King!
Josephine Wilkinson identifies who she believes was the real culprit behind a series of attempts to assassinate French monarch Louis XIV.

Crowning glories
Tracy Borman revisits the best (and worst) coronations from a thousand years of Britain’s history.

The global Tudors
Jerry Brotton introduces us to some of the many immigrants who flocked to London in the 16th century..

The Mongols
How brutal was life in their medieval empire?

The infamous bushranger
Meg Foster tells the amazing story of “Black Douglas”: hard drinker, bandit, prize-fighter and reader of skulls.

Life under the Mongols
Nicholas Morton considers how the world changed for the peoples living in the empire of the khans..

The ultimate Tudor survivor
NEW DISCOVERIES Secrets of
a Stuart shipwreck “The Mughals were all powerful,
while England was a bit player”. How Katherine Parr
outwitted her enemies
in Henry VIII’s court.

Medieval marvels
Ian Mortimer hails the staggering progress – in everything from medicine to exploration – achieved by our medieval ancestors.

A golden age for women?
Marion Turner on what Chaucer’s Wife of Bath can tell us about a time of great change for women.

Forgotten Tudor voices
Lucy Wooding profiles eight people whose experiences shed light on the challenges of life in the 16th century..

The golden age of pirates
Rebecca Simon reveals the factors that sparked a boom in piracy during the 17th and early 18th centuries – and how authorities tackled maritime crime.

Eating for victory
During the austere years of the Second World War, a network of communal dining rooms filled empty stomachs for less. Bryce Evans tells the story of British Restaurants.

Animal attractions
Joanne Cormac explores how the role and popularity of British zoos evolved during the 19th century..

Black Victorians
Keshia N Abraham and John Woolf introduce a diverse cast of journalists, scientists, actors and musicians whose stories deserve to be better known.

Fall of the Ottoman empire
A century after the demise of the oncemighty superpower, Ryan Gingeras explains how outbreaks of sectarian violence fuelled its downfall.

Sparkling signals
Nicola Tallis translates the coded messages sent by Henry VIII’s six wives through their jewellery choices.

Who really found the tomb of Tutankhamun?
Howard Carter is famed for opening the resting place of the boy king – but, as Toby Wilkinson reveals, he didn’t make this discovery on his own.

A firebrand priest
Pamela Roberts introduces a pioneering Antiguan-born scholar who made a habit of challenging the establishment wherever he went.

Downfall of Nazi Germany
Sir Richard J Evans charts the collapse of Hitler’s regime QXGT VJG PCN OQPVJU QH the Second World War..

The horror of prison hulks
Anna McKay delves into the rotting vessels that housed convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Deciphering hieroglyphs
Toby Wilkinson tells the story of two rivals who raced to crack the code of ancient Egypt’s famous picture script..

Politics on screen
In the ninth part of our series on the BBC’s history, David Hendy revisits the birth of televised political debate.

A country divided
Seventy-five years after the partition of India, Kavita Puri examines the continuing legacy of that division across the subcontinent and in the UK.

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