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Paint a pot like an ancient Etruscan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Live locally, live sustainably. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Don’t worry, be Babylonian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Get personal with your poo, like a samurai. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Let a little magic into your life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Procrastinate like Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2Reconstructing daily life in Ancient Egypt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

An illustration shows two old bearded men, one in red shorts and a red Santa hat and the other in green shorts and a wreath headband in a boxing ring

Father Christmas v Santa Claus: the centuries-long battle for Britain's chimneys. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Will Sharpe as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Paul Bettany as Antonio Salieri in historical drama Amadeus

Is Amadeus a true story? The real history of Mozart's feud with Salieri

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Sex, slavery and royal scandal: how Jane Austen's novels exposed a darker side of Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When was the best time in English history to be alive?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George Washington is an American hero – so why was he the pride of Victorian England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“I am to flirt my last”: Jane Austen’s twenties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Meet the reluctant US president who accidentally changed American political norms forever

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He shot down 3 planes in 4 minutes: meet the WW2 pilot you won't have heard about. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The secret propaganda war against the Nazis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was the REAL Santa?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did the ancient Romans wear underwear? The truth is surprisingly complicated

The many faces of James VI & I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This portrait presents Saladin wearing an elaborate headdress, emphasising his status as a ruler of the medieval Islamic world.

Meet the shadowy assassins who were seconds from taking out Saladin – and upending the Crusades

Was the Boston Tea Party REALLY a peaceful protest?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This scene comes from the Bayeux Tapestry, the nearly 70-metre-long embroidered narrative that chronicles the events leading to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

The Bayeux Tapestry is beautiful, but what was its purpose? New research might have the answer

We often refer to countries as 'female' – so why has history excluded women from nation-building?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A short history of ghost hunting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Becoming Jane Austen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painted in 1540 by Hans Holbein the Younger, this iconic portrait shows Henry VIII at the height of his power. The king’s imposing stance and lavish dress project authority and magnificence, reflecting a reign that transformed England’s religion, politics, and monarchy.

Henry VIII wanted a giant Tudor tomb. So why didn’t he get it?

Ghosts, gods & sea monsters: a supernatural history of the Atlantic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a monk writing on a large piece of parchment, with colourful and dramatic scenes spilling out of the pen

The Book of Kells: "a masterpiece of medieval calligraphy and painting". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.