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Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

First World War

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories

Portrait of Ide B Wells

Ida B Wells: civil rights activist and scourge of lynch mobs

Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj

A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

What’s next for period drama?

A woman looks over a colourful striped table laid with crockery and a teapot

History TV and radio in the UK: what’s on our screens in August 2021?

The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“A eulogy to the cult of chivalry”: what can Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tell us about Edward III and the Hundred Years’ War?

Representations of digits from the ninth century, 11th century and the present day

Digital revolution: the evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals

Black and white image showing soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire

Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi’s quest for the supernatural

Kennel Special

The surprising history of Victorian dog shows

A runner is helped across a finish line

21 key moments in the history of the modern Olympics

A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight an adaptation of the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

The Green Knight on screen: what can we expect from the retelling of an Arthurian epic?

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero

The Persian ambassador bows before Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles

King of the world: how Louis XIV turned France into a global power