The wait is over! The eagerly anticipated season 4 of The Crown dropped on Netflix today, debuting newcomer Emma Corrin as Princess Diana and Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher. Read our review of the season here, plus discover our exclusive guides to each episode and the real history behind the series...
Besides invading England, the Normans also headed south and east. As Judith Green reveals, they won success in southern Italy and Sicily, had territorial ambitions in Turkey, and played a key role in the crusades...
Would Henry VIII's have taken a seventh wife if he hadn't died in January 1547? David Baldwin tells the story of Katherine Willoughby, a great friend of the Tudor king, who seemed set to replace Katherine Parr as his bride...
Mary Wollstonecraft has been in the news this week after a new statue designed in her honour provoked backlash online. In this piece written for BBC History Magazine in 2009 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of her birth, historian Hannah Greig looks at the reputation of the dissenting philosopher known as the 'mother of feminism'...
Fancy yourself as a Viking expert? Put your Norse knowledge to the test with our quiz. You can also learn more about the Vikings here, with articles from expert historians including Janina Ramirez, Levi Roach and Judith Jesch...
On 9 July 1982, 31-year-old painter and decorator Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and made his way to the Queen's bedroom, in what was one of the biggest royal security breaches of the 20th century. The outrageous episode features in season 4 of The Crown – discover what really happened here…
Seb Falk highlights the surprising sophistication of scientific research in the Middle Ages; Maggie Andrews discusses the complex history of widows, often historically viewed as figures of pity and poverty but also a driving force for social change; and Victoria Panton Bacon shares remarkable first-hand testimonies from veterans of the Second World War...
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