June 2023

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the ‘she-wolf’ queen who wouldn’t go quietly

The 16th-century painting, Triumph of Death, by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts an army of skeletons ravaging the Earth (Photo by akg-images)

6 moments when diseases drastically altered human history

Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV?

Anne Boleyn during her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a c1835 painting by Édouard Cibot (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn: the Tudor queen’s undying love for her mother

A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How Britain stirred the cauldron of conflict in Palestine

Men kiss in a medieval illumination.

Are some LGBTQ histories being overlooked?

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Henry III of England.

David Carpenter on Henry III “He was not a great king but he was respected as a most Christian one” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

East India Company officer James Tod travels through India in a 19th-century illustration

Opinion “History is currently being used for political purposes that have very little to do with the past”

A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.

Everest The story of the race to the top of the world

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Patrice Lawrence and Lord Kitchener

My history hero Patrice Lawrence chooses Lord Kitchener . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.