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Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastFlorence Nightingale: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Statue of Zeus, king of the Greek gods

King of the gods and sex pest: the legend of Zeus and his thunderbolts

Cocaine: a Victorian sensation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tales from history's toilets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man holds his head in his hands as he is visited by the ghostly apparition of a woman. A photographer's assistant is visible at centre, right.

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Halloween stories10 terrifying tales from medieval to modern history

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Halloween card depicts a pair of girls as they look out of a window as a witch (with a black cat) rides a broom across a full moon, early 20th century.

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What is the history of Halloween?

History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastDismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval England's political miracle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Korean War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastRoman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A vessel at sea comes across the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman

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Seven of history's most disturbing ghost ship stories that will haunt your dreams

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The bloody rise of Henry V: how his brutal upbringing propelled him to greatness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

InterviewRobert Bartlett: "The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Child-killing "demon-hosts": pigs in the medieval city. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Gaza's astonishing cultural heritage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow, as depicted in a painting from 1851. The French leader is the classic example of a man driven to wage war by a lust for power, says Richard Overy. (Photo by Getty Images)

What drives our addiction to war?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Croydon Aerodome, pictured in 1926. Two years earlier, Matthews’ threat to sell his ‘Death Ray’ to a French party had sparked a dash to this airfield by investors determined to stop him. (Photo by Getty Images)

Amazing livesHarry Grindell Matthews: the strangely inventive mind behind the aerophone and Death Ray. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Catalan Atlas from 1375

North, south, east and west: how ancient civilisations found their bearings before the compass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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