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A Georgian painting depicting children leaving for school

The Georgian guide to perfect parenting.

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”.

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting.

My history hero: Aled Jones chooses Freddie Mercury (1946–91).

The future Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace following their wedding, 20 November 1947. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Royal wedding traditions through history: etiquette, menus and the dress code.

The women behind Lord Byron.

A still from the 2017 film Viceroy's House

Raj nostalgia: reconsidering the stories through which we view empire.

Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

The rise of the Great British 'bobby': a brief history of Britain's police service

11 shocking moments in history

Second World War

5 facts about the Bevin Boys

Old Wardour Castle

Britain’s 7 most amazing ruins

500 years of medicine.

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

Escaping the workhouse: the Victorian war on child poverty.

Michael Wood on... slavery.

Were the suffragettes terrorists?.

Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage: the vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare.

Q&AWas Captain Bligh hated by the crew of the Bounty?

A brief history of London tourism since 1800.

Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli.

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Medieval bodies.

An illustration of Peter Williamson

Peter Williamson: The diehard Scot.

Thomas Becket

The LibraryEngland’s forgotten civil war.

Kinder Scout

History explorer: The fight for the right to ramble.

Norman cavalry charge the enemy in this detail from the Bayeux Tapestry. Debate rages over the pros and cons of the tapestry leaving France for the first time in more than 900 years. (Photo by Photo 12/Getty Images)

Will the Bayeux Tapestry actually come to Britain?

A portrait of Elizabeth I, who, says Susan Doran, “confounded her Catholic enemies, imposed her will on the political scene, turned England into a strong Protestant state and presided over a glittering court culture”. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I: the great unifier.

A badge promoting the Tufty Club, an organisation launched by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to educate children on road safety, 1941. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Safety first: 20th-century health and safety messages

A portrait of Edward VI. The young monarch’s support for a trade venture through the North-East Passage laid the foundations for the Elizabethan age of exploration. (Photo by GeorgiosArt/Getty Images)

Edward VI: boy king and religious zealot.

The distinctive polygon towers of Caernarfon Castle. (Photo by Gail Johnson/Getty Images)

History explorerThe conquest of Wales.

A poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool

The great escape: Britain's love affair with the seaside holiday.