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Claret jelly (Picture by Sam Nott)

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

Chinese tea eggs (Picture by Sam Nott)

Historical recipeChinese tea eggs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edda Mussolini, c1929

Second World War

Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler

Inside Germany’s postwar prisons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pilgrimage, past and present. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

An illustration of the Great Fire of London, c1675. St Paul's Cathedral is seen in flames (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

What if...The Great Fire of London never happened?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tracy Borman and Rhiannon Davies

VideoTracy Borman on Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scene of knights in battle, detail from Bayeux tapestry or tapestry of Queen Matilda, France, 11th century

The NormansWho were they & why did they invade England?

British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Secret Santa Getty Dreamstime

General History

What gift would you buy figures from the past? Find out in historical Secret Santa 2022

Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The real Wenceslas is that he was not actually a king, but Duke of Bohemia.

Q&AWho was Good King Wenceslas, and was he actually good?

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Historical cold casesThe mystery of the vanishing widow. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Football in the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The dark side of ancient Egypt

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

The Irish across the globe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Catherine Nixey, Rana Mitter and Michael Wood, photographed by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine

"A vintage year for history books": historians choose their best books of 2022. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books of the year 2022. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pat Smith of Mari Arts and the Mari Lwyd (Photo by Western Mail Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

General History

Welsh Christmas traditions through history

"Superbly written” story of women’s experiences of slavery wins the 2022 Cundill History Prize

The British Commonwealth of Nations - Together Poster (Photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we should remember…The Statute of Westminster

City of fur and feather: the animals of medieval London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Early Modern

15 minutes of fameMargaret MacMillan chooses Babur