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Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast.

Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales.

Historian Saul David

Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”.

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

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?.

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art.

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history.

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

Dinosaur dung billionaires: the Victorian 'gold rush' for fossilised faeces.

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner.

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

How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?.

Hume Castle

Q&AWho was the original king of the castle and who was the dirty rascal?

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

A portrait from the 18th century of King George III wearing his coronation robes

George III: why his reputation as the mad king who lost America needs to be re-evaluated.

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England.

A portrait of Charles II sitting on a throne

Your guide to King Charles II, the ‘merry monarch’

Unexpected Edwardians.

Portrait of John Dee

John Dee: Elizabethan 007, scientist, magician and spy

Tony Robinson as Private Baldrick and Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder

Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?.

Women protest in London following the death of Sarah Everard, 2021

Walking a dangerous road: women's safety on the streets.

A portrait of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York

Like father, like son: Richard Plantagenet and Richard III

A statue of Oliver Cromwell stares downwards, against a red background

The dark truth about Oliver Cromwell

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

“An intoxicating triumph true to the grandeur of the poem”: a historian’s review of The Green Knight

John of Gaunt: prince without a throne.

The burgundy cover of a British passport

Q&AWhen were passports as we know them today first introduced?

John of Gaunt shown in a c16th-century portrait

John of Gaunt: The man who would be king.

Inside the prehistoric mind.

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

How did the British royals survive WW1?.

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

How George V won the war.

Matthew Stevens tackles listener questions on the history of the Welsh regions during the Middle Ages

Medieval Wales: everything you wanted to know.