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The lady with the mystic smile

On glimpsing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris,

Snapshots

Members of the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) in East London

History in the News

The explorer’s wife was reputed to have carried his severed

Time Piece

A look at everyday objects from the past

History in Colour

Colourised photographs that bring the past to life

Your History

The journalist and Channel 4 News presenter tells us why

Yesterday’s Papers

Another timeless front page from the archives

This Month In... 1066

Anniversaries that have made history

Time Capsule: 1911

Snapshots of the world from one year in the past

Graphic History

All the world’s a stage, but rarely has that been

Mona Lisa: Da Vinci’s Greatest Mystery

She has been stolen, vandalised, adored and imitated. But who is the Mona Lisa – and what can she tell us about the man who painted her? Lottie Goldfinch brushes up on the theories

Nazis in the Channel Islands

The Battle of Britain may have scuppered Hitler’s plans for an invasion of Britain, but, as Emma Slattery Williams reveals, some British subjects still lived under Nazi occupation

Robert the Bruce

Where Balliol and Wallace had failed, Robert the Bruce succeeded. Julian Humphrys guides us through the mire of blood, subterfuge and opportunism that freed Scotland from a yoke of English rule

Generals who switched sides

Tey turned coat for glory money and ideology – and, occasionally changed the course of history Words: Nige Tassell

The Last of the Stuarts

With The Favourite due in cinemas in January, Emma Slattery Williams wonders why Queen Anne – the woman who oversaw the creation of Great Britain – isn’t more fondly remembered

DOCTOR WHO

The Time Lord from Gallifrey hit our screens in November 1963, and it wasn’t long before he (and now she) became a pop-culture touchstone

Ask the Experts

Young Mayans didn’t have much of a childhood. They began

What’s On

A guide to what’s happening in the world of history

BRITAIN’S TREASURES… YORK MINSTER, North Yorkshire

Tis imposing exemplar of Gothic architecture in the heart of Y ork has been an enduring epicentre of Christianity for hundreds of years

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PARIS, 1878

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