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Lady killers: what 5 murder cases can reveal about the lives of women in the 19th and 20th centuries

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Women's history podcast episodes

Micheal Rosen and Émile Zola

My history hero Michael Rosen chooses Émile Zola

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Pod Christian Wolmar WL

Railway history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An environmental history of big business . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The long fight over abortion rights in the United States

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Pod Anna MacKay WL

The floating hell of prison hulks . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today’s industrial action

The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the

The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice

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Pod Dominic Janes WL

Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historical recipe Devonshire squab pie

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Pod Dan Gretton WL

Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Matthew Taylor WL

World Cup history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

Britain’s harsh winter of 1880–81 depicted as the start of a new ice age, by contemporary cartoonist George du Maurier (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Out of the cold: the slow beginnings of climate change science