When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout  (+)

More than a capital city Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of  (+)

In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded  (+)

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland,  (+)

Using wide-ranging evidence Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait  (+)

The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th  (+)