Originally shown on Channel 5 Streaming now on the Channel 5 app Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign saw Britain transform into an industrial powerhouse and the head of a global empire. But when Victoria b

In September 1401, the monks of the monastery of Bury St Edmunds awaited with trepidation the impending visit of their archbishop. Every effort was taken to please their esteemed visitor – including l

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The grisly fate of more than 16,000 soldiers and civilians during the First Anglo-Afghan War serves as a timeless lesson in hubris and bad leadership

Close your eyes and picture Anne Boleyn. Chances are you can conjure up a pretty clear and detailed image in your imagination – because few figures in English history seem as visually familiar as Henr

Originally built in 1703, as the London home of the Duke of Buckingham, Buckingham House was acquired by the newly married King George III in 1761, as an escape from the nearby St James’s Palace, the