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Agriculture

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Animals

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Archaeology

St Paul’s Cathedral

Architecture

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Art history

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Black history

Dunluce Castle ruins

Castles and palaces

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Crime and punishment

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Culture

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Food and drink

3-D Movie Viewers

Historical films

History in the home - Getty Images

History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

People march with a large rainbow flag in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Image by Photolibrary / Getty Images Plus)

LGBTQ+ history

Illustration of a Medieval Scribe

Literature

A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

Maritime history

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Medicine and health

The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

Ancient Griffin-lion relief

Myths and legends

Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

Nazi Germany

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

Politics

Lucy Worsley

Popular historians

The Last Supper

Religion

Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

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Sex and love

Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Painting of Daniel Mendoza

Sport and leisure

Boys watching TV in the 1950s

TV and radio

Illustration of strange creatures

Weird and wonderful history

Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

Women's history

Revolution and war

A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

American war of Independence

French revolution

Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

Civil war

Soldiers in the Crimean War

The Crimean War

Social History

A black and white illustration showing two men dressed in dark clothing and hats sitting in a rowing boat. One of them sits halfway in the boat, holding the oars. The other is leant over the front of the boat and is pulling the body of a woman out of the water. Behind them is a bridge with two large arches underneath it

He's the Victorian serial killer you've never heard of – and we may now know who he was.

A photo collage featuring three images. On the top left is a black and white photograph of a group of men and women pulling an aeroplane. On the bottom left is a black and white photograph of five men, three in military uniform, standing outside a hut that is advertising fish and chips. On the right is an image of a large group of soldiers walking through a city, holding large flags.

Fascism? No thanks! Why Britain rejected extremism in the 1930s.

A black and white photograph of three men wearing striped helmets sitting in a bob sled. Behind them, a large crowd of men, wearing white jumpers and caps and helmets

London 1908 was the weirdest Winter Olympics in history – and here's why.

A coloured engraving showing a large group queuing up to go into a dance ball. Each couple is holding hands, and the men are wearing high necked suits and the women are in long colourful gowns

Lonely hearts and holiday flings: a brief history of dating.

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Kings and Queens

An illustration showing a royal purple robe being lifted from the ground, with some dust being swept under it with a dustpan and brush

The prince and the brothel: 6 scandals that rocked the British monarchy.

Episode 1The royal family | Alice Loxton on the world of the Georgians.

A large illustration of Henry VIII with several images imprinted on him

Porpoise for breakfast and late night sex visits: Henry VIII's life in a day.

Habsburg royals displaying the distinctive jaw that became a hallmark of their intermarrying to stay in power. (Images by Getty)

What was the Habsburg jaw?

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Women's History

A digital collage featuring a Victorian-era woman in formal dress at the centre. Behind her are layered images including industrial smokestacks, ornate patterns, playing cards, and text from the book “The Mabinogion” by Lady Charlotte Guest. The overall style blends historical portraiture with abstract and industrial elements.

10 children and 12,000 pieces of art: the remarkable life of Lady Charlotte Schreiber.

How did people understand pregnancy BEFORE modern medicine?.

Did Hitler have sexual relations with Eva Braun? What my research reveals about the Führer's love life.

A collage of images showing a woman in a red and brown dress, with her arms around a small child to her left. Behind them is a large building, some ships and a crowd of people

Meet the incredible woman who saved Portugal's Jews.

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Weird and wonderful

Toilets through time, from sponges on sticks to medieval privies.

An outline of a woman sitting at a typewriter is placed over three newspaper clippings

From maniacal horses to bat-men on the moon: 14 strange newspaper headlines from history.

Medieval vampire slayers: why did our ancestors dig up and dismember the dead?.

A large drawing showing multiple different sea creatures in a light blue ocean

From krakens to serpents: 5 fearsome sea monsters from history.

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TV and Radio

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First World War

How the work of American folk song collectors inspired The History of Sound

Trixie in 'Call the Midwife'

History TV and radio in the UK: what's on our screens this week?

Could Benedict and Sophie have lived happily ever after? The true history behind Bridgerton's cross-class romance

Will Sharpe as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Paul Bettany as Antonio Salieri in historical drama Amadeus

Is Amadeus a true story? The real history of Mozart's feud with Salieri

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