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Agriculture

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Animals

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St Paul’s Cathedral

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Art history

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Black history

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Crime and punishment

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Culture

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Food and drink

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Historical films

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History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

People march with a large rainbow flag in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Image by Photolibrary / Getty Images Plus)

LGBTQ+ history

Illustration of a Medieval Scribe

Literature

A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

Maritime history

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Medicine and health

The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

Ancient Griffin-lion relief

Myths and legends

Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

Nazi Germany

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Politics

Lucy Worsley

Popular historians

The Last Supper

Religion

Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

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Sex and love

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Social history

Painting of Daniel Mendoza

Sport and leisure

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TV and radio

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Weird and wonderful history

Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

Women's history

Revolution and war

A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

American war of Independence

French revolution

Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

Civil war

Soldiers in the Crimean War

The Crimean War

Social History

The ‘Eye of Providence’, a symbol linked to the Illuminati, stares out from the reverse side of all US one-dollar bills

Who were the Illuminati – and how can you join them?

Biddenden cakes

What are the Easter treats known as Biddenden cakes, and who were the Biddenden Maids?

The swordplay’s the thing: Henry VIII's Masters of Defence and the thrilling world of 16th-century fencing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Basildon Park in Berkshire

The profits of slaveryThe dire impact of empire on Britain's countryside. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kings and Queens

Portrait of James III of Scotland

This medieval king was hunted down and brutally murdered — and we still don’t know who killed him

by Anthony van Dyck

"Tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy": was Charles I really that bad?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III. (Photo by Getty Images/Alamy)

The final mystery of Richard III: how 21st-century science cracked a 500-year-old cold case. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women's History

Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker's famous banana skirt, which was introduced for Baker’s performance at Paris’s Folies Bergère – an act with which she soon became synonymous.

Singer, dancer, Nazi-fighter: how Josephine Baker became a WW2 heroine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Tudor angels of death: the 16th-century obsession with female killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The "outwardly respectable" man who had a body in his basement: how the Dr Crippen case shocked Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A coloured engraving of pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts, who enforced strict rules on his ship.

Liquor, loot and death on the high seas: 5 things you (probably) didn't know about the history of pirates. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval mystery: the green-coloured children found in an English village. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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TV and Radio

The Secret Genius of Modern Life.

History TV and radio in the UK: what's on our screens this week?

Several men stand around a table in a submarine

Whiskey on the Rocks: the real story behind Soviet submarine S-363’s Cold War grounding

A man stands on a platform in front of a crowd

Second World War

Why Schindler’s List remains relevant decades on

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