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Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies

Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf and wife of art critic Clive Bell, all of whom were members of the Bloomsbury Group.

Famous EdwardiansFrom Beatrix Potter to Captain Robert F Scott

A journey along the Iron Curtain

Nancy Astor campaigning

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

Edward VIIA guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

Lawn tennis was a popular activity amongst the upper classes in the Edwardian period.

Daily life in the Edwardian era: from hobbies to gadgets

Fleeing revolution: Russian exiles in Paris

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of TanukhWarrior queen of Arabia

An early 20th century postcard showing young girls dressed in their Sunday best at a temperance rally.

A brief history of the temperance movement in Britain and Ireland

A composite image showing the Edwardians

The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know

How FDR transformed the US presidency

Diners watch a waitress chalk up the dishes offered on the day's menu at a British Restaurant in Gillingham, 1941. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/ Popperfoto via Getty Images)

Eat for victory: the British Restaurants of WW2

The death of Queen Victoria

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”

Indigenous American travellers in Europe

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

Billy the KidThe Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

The remains of the Amesbury Archer (2400-2200BC), a burial found near Stonehenge and about 4300 years old, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.

Britain’s greatest archaeological discoveries

The PoWs who survived Nagasaki

Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo

Curious cures for medieval maladies

Good King Hal

My life in historyMike Farley, Henry VIII impersonator

1450 farmworkers planting seeds and harrowing a ploughed field.

Medieval wellness: how our New Year’s resolutions mirror the Middle Ages

Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know

An effigy of Henry III

The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England's ultimate family drama

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll: maker of wonderlands

Veggie Victorians

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Two women share a tender moment, c1902

Q&AHas it ever been a crime to be lesbian in England?

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