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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.

John Brown leading Queen Victoria on a horse.

Queen Victoria and John Brown: the controversial relationship between sovereign and servant

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)

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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.

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15 minutes of fameMargaret MacMillan chooses Babur

St Andrew, in St Andrew chapel, depicted at his crucifixion displayed in the manner known as the Saltire cross

St Andrew’s Day: 11 things you might not know about Scotland’s patron saint

The hammer and sickle, seen held aloft by the figures in this Soviet-era statue, symbolised unity between the working class and the peasantry

When and why did the Soviet Union fall? Your history guide to the USSR

Debtors’ prisons: Dickensian horrors or economic successes?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

Historical cold cases with Nell DarbyThe mystery of Miss Lamond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Food and drink history podcast episodes

Dark Age bullies & forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sæberht of Essex, who oversaw the building of London’s original church of St Paul’s (Photo by The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo)

How to survive the Dark Ages in Britain: 6 crucial tips. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.