Rachel Dinning

International Women’s Day has existed in various forms across the world for more than 100 years. Ahead of this year’s event – which takes place on 8 March and has a theme of “celebrating the past, planning the future” – here’s a brief guide to the history of the day...

Recent years have seen LGBTQ histories increasingly take centre stage, from the Stonewall riots to the queer pasts of National Trust houses. But what are the challenges of telling such stories? We assembled an expert panel to find out

How did Elizabeth I feel about being queen? Tracy Borman was speaking to Rachel Dinning at BBC History Magazine’s History Weekend 2017. Discover more about Elizabeth I here: https://www.historyextra.com/people/elizabeth-i/ Cover photo by Getty Images. This series of videos is designed to be bitesized, offering introductory information for between 1-2 minutes. For further reading, please visit historyextra.com

International Women’s Day has existed in various forms across the world for more than 100 years. Ahead of this year’s event – which takes place on 8 March – here’s a brief guide to the history of the day...

As part of Women’s History Month 2020, we round up five notable women inventors worth knowing about…

Following the return of Netflix’s popular Regency drama Bridgerton, discover the history behind five of its most noteworthy filming locations

From seeing feathers as omens of death to saving soldiers with homing pigeons, our interactions with birds have always been contradictory. Roy and Lesley Adkins select five chapters from avian history to illuminate this complex relationship...

Elizabeth Gaskell was instrumental in bringing the unpleasant implications of industrialisation to the public conscious – learn more about her life and legacy

Simon de Montfort's body was horribly mutilated and dismembered after his defeat at 1265's fateful battle of Evesham, during the Second Barons' War. The medieval rebel leader's head and testicles were sent to the wife of one of his killers, while his butchered hands and feet were spread far and wide across Britain. But why did he meet such a grisly end?