Photo of an Edwardian family on sand dunes

Edwardian

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QuizHow much do you know about Titanic?

Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster, 14 April 1912

TitanicWhat happened after the sinking?

A still from James Cameron's 'Titanic'. (Image by Alamy)

How accurate are the most famous films about Titanic?

A depiction of Titanic’s final moments, as the ship sinks and passengers watch from a lifeboat

TitanicWhen did it sink & how long did it take?

US socialite Margaret Brown, who posthumously became known as the ‘Unsinkable Molly Brown’ following her Titanic experiences.

Titanic8 stories of passengers who sailed on the liner

Titanic in dry doc before it was launched

TitanicWhen and how was the ship built?

A vintage photo of the RMS Titantic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912

Your history guide to RMS Titanic, plus 12 fascinating facts about the disaster

Children's author Beatrix Potter as a young woman, c1892

Why the real Beatrix Potter was more than her children’s tales

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Q&AWho was the Piltdown Man?

Surviving hell on earth: Polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes on Shackleton

Historical recipeButter Beere

Windows: an illuminating history

A 12-year-old boy with a large bruise on his face ‘pulls threads’ in a New York sweatshop

The 19th-century slums of New York

Unexpected Edwardians

Emma Dabiri“Merriman-Labor’s searing satire of the British was not well received”

Fern Riddell

Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history

Titanic: everything you wanted to know

Fern RiddellSex: Lessons from History

Welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse

History heroAnita Anand chooses Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926)

Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey

Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates

Were the suffragettes terrorists?

George Washington Carver in a laboratory

History heroGillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943)

Fern Riddell.

Fern Riddell"Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely"

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

A suffragette march

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Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett

Percy Fawcett and the search for the 'Lost City Of Z'

PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

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