Articles written by:

Richard Bevan

Richard Bevan is an MA Screenwriter/playwright and freelance writer who has written for television, radio and stage. He specialises in history and true crime writing, and is currently contributing to History.co.uk. Represented by WGM Atlantic.

Ronnie and Reggie Kray lock hands as they celebrate being acquitted

The Good Samaritan Kray Twins: Myth or Masterstroke?
Portrait of Henry VIII

The Tudors on screen: Television and film dramas about the Tudor dynasty
Portrait of Nell Gwyn

The many (many) mistresses of Charles II
Portrait of Charles I

The Stuarts: Britain's unluckiest royal dynasty
King Edward VIII reigned for less than a year | Public Domain

The shortest reigning British monarchs
Abraham Lincoln

8 infamous assassinations from recent history
Painting depicting Warwick the Kingmaker

The Puppetmaster of Power: The life of Warwick the Kingmaker
William Joyce lies in a hospital bed

Betray your country: 5 traitors and spies who betrayed Britain
King Charles III waving

God Save The King: Charles III's Royal life
Portrait of Saladin

Saladin: Richard the Lionheart's worthy adversary
Mata Hari performing an exotic dance

6 seductive sex spies from history
Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots: The legitimate heir to the English throne?

1640 painting of a commedia dell'arte troupe on a wagon in a town square

That's the way to do it! The history of British comedy
Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, painted in 1920 | Public Domain

The most notorious pirates from Blackbeard to Anne Bonny
Painting of Tsar Nicholas II wearing a crown and holding a sceptre

The last Tsar of Russia: A life of Nicholas II
Portrait of Anne Lister and her statue in Halifax

Anne Lister: The secret diaries of 'Gentlemen Jack'
Then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, James Callaghan and John Major join the Queen to celebrate her Golden Jubilee in 2002

Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers: How many served throughout her reign?
Small Argentine and British flags placed on a map around the Falkland Islands

40 years on: Remembering the Falklands War
Aerial view of the Pentagon

'People have a screw loose': The history of 9/11 conspiracy theories
Henry VIII and Henry VIII

The lives of Henry VII and Henry VIII: Never the twain shall meet
Portrait of a Young Woman c. 1540–1545 from the Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger

Did Catherine Howard cheat on Henry VIII?
Anne Boleyn in the tower

Who was Henry VIII's most unfortunate wife?
Replica of the Tutankhamun's funeral mask found in Egypt

The greatest pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
Margaret Beaufort

The kingmaker Lady Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor dynasty
The Battle of the Halbe

The Battle of the Halbe: The destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army
A photo montage showing Malcolm X in March 1964 and the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC, USA.

The lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King: The firebrand and the pacifist
A group of African musicians from the painting, the Engagement of St Ursula and Prince Etherius

Black Tudors: The fascinating lives of Africans living in Tudor England
The Council of Nicaea

The Council of Nicaea: Resolving the crisis in early Christianity