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10 February 1840: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their return from their wedding at St James's Palace, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Why do brides wear white dresses? Plus the history behind 3 more wedding traditions

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums

Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore

Members of the royal family: Prince Louis; Prince George; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Charlotte; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; and Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's annual birthday parade on 8 June 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

From The Crown to Queen Elizabeth’s corgis: 24 history questions about the royal family for your home pub quiz

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

Second World War

“The war without an end”: what happened in Europe after VE Day?

The Floralia

What is the history behind May Day and why do we celebrate it?

Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the world made us

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

A brief history of changing hairstyles

Traditional Kente cloth from Ghana (Photo by Dreamstime)

A new view of Africa’s past

Princess Elizabeth 1939

The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen

Emma Dabiri in conversation about her book 'Don't Touch My Hair'

“Afro-textured hair had no stigma before the dehumanisation of black people that emerged from slavery”: Emma Dabiri discusses the changing perceptions of Afro-textured hair

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Prince Charles and Camilla: a history of their romance

Ramsay MacDonald, the first British Labour prime minister, pictured after the general election of 1931

A brief history of the Labour Party