Is the British Museum Haunted? with Noah Angell
Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum
Europe
A collection of 84 Posts
England Arising (1199 - 1399) with Caroline Burt & Richard Partington
The medieval historians Caroline Burt and Richard Partington tell us about a decisive two centuries in the English national story
Before the Tourists: The Unseen History of the Venice Ghetto
Harry Freedman on a 'dark and unhappy' chapter in Venetian history
Walking the Streets of London in the 1660s
Joad R. Wren explains how he found inspiration and truth in Ralph Agas's map of London
The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
The artist Graham Turner casts an eye back to 1471 and one of the decisive moments of the Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Barnet
1924: The Death of Lenin
On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.
1918: Inside Amiens Cathedral
A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church
Why did Joseph Stalin Decide to Invade Finland in 1939?
The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rentola explains, it turned out to be a strategic blunder
Harry Clifton and Brideshead’s Sebastian Flyte
The real-life inspiration for a classic character from fiction