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The problem with poo: a millennium of manure. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Toilets through timeAbsolutely bogging. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 7Early modern chamber pots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 6Prehistoric toilets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 5Anglo-Saxon and Norman cesspits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration showing a samurai soldier dressed in a black and blue robe. Behind him is a person holding up a bar with two buckets of poo hanging from it.

Let’s think before we flush, with Dr Christopher Harding. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3Tudor garderobes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1Roman latrines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 4Victorian lavatories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2Medieval privies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 15th-century 'Zodiac Man' illustrates how each sign of the zodiac was thought to govern a different part of the human body. Such images helped shape early modern astrology, which blended medieval medical theory with renewed interest in celestial influence. Astrological medicine guided decisions from diagnosis to bloodletting, reflecting a world in which the heavens were seen as active forces in human health and destiny.

How do you cope with living in a century of chaos? By learning how to predict the future

James Garfield: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2The LAST Anglo-Saxon kings of England | Harold II and the road to 1066. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A new history of multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A red and black illustration showing a large wolf jumping up, above a man laying on the floor. Around the central wolf, there are several others

Spectral beasts and hounds of hell: a spooky history of Britain's ghost dogs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What should we do with the Nazis? The road to the Nuremberg Trials. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Research into Adolf Hitler's DNA has thrown up some extraordinary insights into the Nazi dictator’s private life. (Images by Getty Images)

Second World War

“We analysed Hitler’s DNA – and what we discovered made us gasp”

This 1865 image shows Giuseppe Garibaldi at Caprera, the veteran revolutionary whose campaigns made him a hero of the Italian unification movement. Celebrated across Europe, Garibaldi became the enduring symbol of Italy’s struggle for independence and national unity.

History’s sexiest revolutionary? Meet the mesmerising general whose charms helped win a war

An illustration showing a large white building with a triangular roof and columns. In front of it, there is an open gate with chains and several padlocks hanging from the left hand side

Who should decide the stories museums tell?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was REALLY buried at Sutton Hoo? The secrets behind the famous helmet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who stole the Tudor crown?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This late 16th-century portrait by John de Critz depicts Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532–1590), Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster. A shrewd diplomat and master of espionage, Walsingham built the intelligence network that helped safeguard the Tudor state from plots and foreign threats.

Elizabeth I’s shadowy spy network was tasked with uncovering secret conspiracies. Here’s what it found

The librarian who stole KGB secrets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling in the Netflix series Death by Lightning, beside a portrait of the real Conkling.

Who was Roscoe Conkling? The real story of how US politics’ ‘spoils system’ met its match

Episode 1 The VIKING king of England: the story of King Cnut and the Danish conquest of 1016. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

On 27 May 1954, Sir Winston Churchill addresses a meeting of the Women’s Conservative Association. Nearly a decade after leading Britain through the Second World War, the prime minister remained a commanding figure in British politics and public life.

Second World War

It was Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's "impossible" plan to start World War 3

Nellie Bly: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The improbable alliance that defeated Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

I met two survivors of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. This is their story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A large outdoor bonfire blazes at night, sending sparks into the air as a crowd of silhouetted onlookers gathers in the foreground

Remember, remember: the legacy of the Gunpowder Plot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.