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General History

An environmental history of big business

Bioarchaeology: uncovering the secrets of ancient and prehistoric bodies.

Lost languages & travelling communities: unexpected medieval histories.

Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe.

African-American philanthropy.

Recentering African narratives.

Reconstructing the body of God.

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

Why we should remember…Charles Babbage's Difference Engine

Lucy Worsley on three extraordinary livesThe survivor, the 'incurable' and the scapegoat.

Closeup of Henry VIII's face

The slow death of Henry VIII

Midway: why America won the WW2 naval battle.

Princess Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour (Photos by Getty and Alamy)

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president.

Elizabeth Gaskell: a voice of the Victorians.

Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know.

A portrait of William Shakespeare

History quiz – language and literature.

Has Britain always looked backwards?.

A woodcut of the brain from Andreas Vesalius’s groundbreaking 1543 treatise On the Fabric of the Human Body

The Elizabethans' complex relationship with mental wellbeing.

Episode 6Cultures lost and found.

How the Persians were written out of history.

Oscar Wilde pictured around 1882.

Oscar Wilde's tragic end

Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson: novelist, playwright, poet, traveller.

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria.

Shady deals & rigged elections: the changing face of corruption.

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

Q&AWho wrote the first thesaurus?

A stained glass portrait of Dr Samuel Johnson in 17 Gough Square, London Inns court c1989.

"A useful time-capsule of Georgian life": Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary.

Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1.

The Queen's century of change.

Empire of blood.