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Guitarist David Crosby of the Byrds performs with his band in front of a large crowd at the Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais, June 1967. (Image by © Henry Diltz/Corbis)

General History

From Ancient Greece to Glastonbury: a brief history of music festivals

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

JuneteenthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

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

Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How women helped sustain the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

Memorial DayA brief history

Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Battling the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family walks through San Francisco’s Chinatown district in 1904. Chinese culture endured in the US in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Photo by Arnold Genthe/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The Chinese Exclusion Act: your guide to the 19th-century US anti-immigration laws

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How (and how not) to stage a coronation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

(Photo by Mila Vasileva / Alamy Stock Photo)

Lady killers: what 5 murder cases can reveal about the lives of women in the 19th and 20th centuries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women's history podcast episodes

Micheal Rosen and Émile Zola

My history heroMichael Rosen chooses Émile Zola. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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 "degradation" of Alfred Dreyfus during which his sword was snapped over a warrant officer’s knee (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images)

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

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

Devonshire squab pie on a tray (Picture by 'We Make Magazines')

Historical recipeDevonshire squab pie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British royal family podcast episodes

History & science: the big questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.