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Week five quiz: work and labour rights in Victorian Britain

A procession of cardinals file into the Vatican

General History

Conclaves explained: what happens a pope dies?

Victorian working life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?

Man in a protective suit examining DNA

History TV and radio in the UK: what's on our screens this week?

What working-class autobiographies can tell us about the Industrial Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The princes in the Tower

Have we finally unmasked the killer of the Princes in the Tower?

Princes in the Tower: could this new discovery solve the mystery?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 19th-century image shows a group of ‘pit lasses’, employed to work at the surface of coal mines. An earlier law had explicitly banned women from working below ground. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

From family to factory: women's lives during the Industrial Revolution

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

The murders at Rillington Place: postwar London's grisliest crimes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of King John of England

9 of the worst monarchs in history

Historical anniversariesDecember

Iain Duncan Smith and Robert Peel

My history heroIain Duncan Smith chooses Robert Peel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General History

Quiz of the weekWhat was a common ingredient in ancient Roman toothpaste?

Nelson & Winnie: inside the Mandelas' marriage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light

“He’s making choices that we would perceive as ruthless” | Wolf Hall’s researcher on Thomas Cromwell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor England | 2. Daily Life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor England | 1. Power and Politics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor England | 5. The Wider World. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor England | 4. Religion and Superstition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor England | 3. Culture and Innovation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Smiling teenage man holds a toothbrush with toothpaste up to his mouth, with a towel draped round his shoulders

General History

Oxhooves, mouse brains and urine: the disgusting things we used to use as toothpaste

A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fess Parker, an American actor, as Davy Crockett

The man in the coonskin cap: your guide to Davy Crockett

A group of men in front of cannon with a ruined building behind them and rubble on the street

The war Britain won in 38 minutes

'Monster soup commonly called Thames water, being a correct representation of that precious stuff doled out to us!!!', 1828; showing an ugly woman holding a spy glass which touches the circumference of a large circle representing a magnified drop of water filled with grotesque aquatic creatures. A satire on the Metropolitan Water Supply.

From murder bottles to arsenic wallpaper: 5 hidden killers in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian healthcare | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week four quiz: medicine and health in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.