History

Hidden deep on the Balmoral Estate, the summer residence of the Royal Family, the bewildering Balmoral cairns are slowly revealing their fascinating backstory to visitors.

Elizabeth I is the only English queen never to have married. The iconic Tudor monarch's last visit to Kenilworth Castle 450 years ago may hold some clues.

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we have distorted what the dodo was really like.

This battle has been described as "the beginning of the end" for Royalist forces in the Civil War.

The museum opens new gallery exhibiting the town's history from the Tudors to the modern day.

This US state saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on its historic lands, the environment and local communities.

In 1960, Jane Goodall began her groundbreaking field study by living among chimpanzees in Tanzania. In 1986, she told the BBC how similar chimps and humans really are.

Cirencester's Old Station, designed by Brunel, will reopen as part of the town's history festival.