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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?

General History

Historical literature podcast episodes

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

An environmental history of big business

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

The Great Unrest: what caused the industrial action of 1911–14?

Tools, temples & tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history

27th April 1946: Miners and steelworkers in Tredegar pay the Workmen's Medical Aid Society twopence out of every pound they earn to go towards their medical, dental and optical services. A nurse bends over a small boy to see to his injuries. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4062 - Where Bevan Got His National Health Plan - pub. 1946

General History

Upcoming in 2023: historical anniversaries, exhibitions & television

Emblema of Cleopatra Selene

Cleopatra's daughter: the tragic inheritance to triumphant reign of Cleopatra Selene

Weaponising food in the Third Reich

“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change

Ghetto in Charkov Photo 1941 World War Two Russian Campaign Occupation of Charkov capital of the Ukraine

The Black Book of Soviet Jewry

ConspiracyDid Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know

Illustration depicting the first hot air balloon flight in America, piloted by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1793.

When was the first crossing of the English Channel by air?

Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot and George Meeker, 1932.

QuizHow well do you know the silent movie era?

A painting by Dutch artist Hendrick Danckerts shows Charles II’s gardener, John Rose, presenting the king with a pineapple

Pineapples, tulips and follies: 10 status symbols from history

Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks

Three of the children of Henry VII: Prince Henry; Arthur Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret

Royal rivalries10 of the most famous sibling relationships

Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States

A montage of Adolf Hitler and a purple starry sky

Second World War

ConspiracyDid Hitler escape from his bunker and live in Argentina after WW2?

The floating hell of prison hulks

Refusing to fight in WW2

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the 'worst pirate of all time'

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today's industrial action