Feature

Membership

Bulldog burners and dungboys: classifying occupations in British censuses (1841-1911). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Side-by-side portraits of Henry VIII's first two wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon.

Membership

Do we have to be ‘Team Catherine’ or ‘Team Anne’ when it comes to Henry VIII’s wives?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf.

20th Century

The tragic story behind Sylvia Plath’s writing

Alfred the Great (849–899). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Anglo-Saxon

Who was King Alfred the Great?

Membership

Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsA history of violence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting showing British troops advancing on Ulundi, mountains in the background

Membership

The forgotten battles of the Zulu War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Lancelot of the Lake and Queen Guinevere seen embracing by King Arthur in a medieval illustration

Membership

Tudors in love: what were the dynasty's romantic secrets?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers package Chicken Ramen, the first mass-produced instant noodles, in a factory in Japan, c1960

Membership

The age of noodles: Momofuku Ando and the rise of ramen in post-war Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello

Membership

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(Illustration: Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)

Membership

Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jodie Comer plays Marguerite de Carrouges in the upcoming film 'The Last Duel',

Medieval

“A spotlight on historic societal misogyny and disbelief of women”: what The Last Duel gets right and wrong

Membership

Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the German film 'Ways to Strength and Beauty', 1925. (Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

Historian Saul David

Membership

Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

Membership

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Membership

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Membership

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the Red Dragon of China

General Modern

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

20th Century

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

Membership

A homemade ouija board, a treasure hunt and fake madness: the great escape of World War I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dinosaur dung became a valuable commodity in 19th century Cambridgeshire. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Membership

Dinosaur dung billionaires: the Victorian 'gold rush' for fossilised faeces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration from The Travels of Marco Polo, showing a teenage Marco on the deck of a ship sailing away from Venice

Medieval

Why are Marco Polo's travels so famous?

Membership

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century illustration shows two bishops watching men fight to the death in a trial by combat.

Medieval

Medieval trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel

A montage of Romans (Photos courtesy of Getty and Alamy)

Membership

How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The title page and frontispiece of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, a first-hand account of his experience in slavery and how he seized his freedom. (Image by Getty Images)

Membership

David Olusoga on the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval miniature depicts a monk and a woman in a bed.

Medieval

Sex in the Middle Ages: have attitudes really changed?

You're currently on page 48

Prev Page

Next Page