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Art history

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Black history

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Food and drink

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History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

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LGBTQ+ history

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Maritime history

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Medicine and health

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Military history

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Myths and legends

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Nazi Germany

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Politics

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The Last Supper

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Sex and love

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Painting of Daniel Mendoza

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Weird and wonderful history

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

Women's history

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

American war of Independence

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Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

Civil war

Soldiers in the Crimean War

The Crimean War

Social History

A collage of pictures shows a black woman wearing a spotty dress in the foreground to the right. To the left, an image of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by a police officer, with a bus and several slogans in the background

Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Be wary of technology’s big promises, but roll with the changes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Samba schools used the carnival to foreground overlooked histories". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kings and Queens

Two green hearts are sideways, facing each other. In each there is an image: one has a painting of Elizabeth I and the other has a painting of the Duke of Anjou

The Virgin Queen? Elizabeth I's forbidden love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two men dressed in Tudor clothes stand next to one another against a green curtain backdrop. Between them are several items, including a globe, a hymnbook and a lute

Tudors in turmoil: deciphering Hans Holbein’s masterwork The Ambassadors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plague, famine and chivalry: a human history of the 14th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of James III of Scotland

This medieval king was hunted down and brutally murdered — and we still don’t know who killed him

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Women's History

From a scandalous threesome to classical stardom: the actress who found redemption in Handel’s Messiah. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Flower power: how plants transformed the lives of 17th-century women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Africans have been starved of historical figures from their own lands that they can look up to”: Paula Akpan on female African leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

A women with a shocked face next to a calendar with the date of Friday the 13th

Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

A cartoon depicting an ancient Assyrian king sitting upright in bed. His eyes are wide open and he has an anxious expression on his face. An open window to the right of the scene shows the moon and stars

Give away your worries, like an ancient Mesopotamian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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TV and Radio

Are Bertha and George Russell real? Inside the real Vanderbilt divorces that rocked the Gilded Age

Cast of 'The Gold' (Picture by BBC Pictures)

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

Composite image of the historical Talleyrand and his portrayal in Apple TV+ drama Carême

The master of political survival: Talleyrand, the cunning foreign minister of Carême

Was Carême a spy? The true story of the world’s first celebrity chef

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