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Video podcastTea history: everything you wanted to know

Tea history: everything you wanted to know

Police chase demonstrators during the 1936 battle of Cable Street

When Mosley's fascists took on East End London and lost: the Battle of Cable Street explained

Victorian women detectives

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Elżbieta Zawacka pictured on her Poznań University ID in 1927

Amazing livesThe story of Agent Zo: the fearless female resistance fighter of WW2

A c1800 depiction of Gulbadan Begum smoking while seated on a throne-like armchair.

Gulbadan Begum: the Mughal Jane Austen

Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor in Rings of Power

How ancient history influenced Tolkien: did a forgotten legend inspire Rings of Power's Celebrimbor?

A hidden history of black civil rights

Should period dramas reflect modern sensibilities? (Photo by Hugh Cowling)

Should period dramas reflect modern sensibilities?

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

Queen Elizabeth I.

QuizHow well do you know the Elizabethan period?

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week

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The suffragettes: masters of PR

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Communism: everything you wanted to know

Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: the firebrand feminist thinker with a rule-breaking life

Former Soviet Colonel Stanislav Petrov at his home in 2004.

The Soviet soldier who saved the world: how did Stanislav Petrov prevent nuclear Armageddon?

The 1924 British Empire Exhibition showcased industry close to home, as well as in the far-flung reaches of the empire. Here, Belfast ropeworkers show off the fruits of their labour. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The British empire’s last hurrah? Why an epic celebration of imperialism in 1924 failed to mask a superpower in decline

A 19th-century painting of Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army storming Basing House in 1645 (Photo by Artepics/Alamy Stock Photo)

The siege of Basing House: how the Civil War was won

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1066 | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons

My history heroMarianna Spring chooses Nellie Bly

Churchill's prewar crisis meetings

Henry VII: life of the week

Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future