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Q&A: What was the punishment of being ‘burnt in the hand’?

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know

Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?

Q&A Who won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

How assassinations have changed history

History TV and radio in the UK: what's on our screens in July 2021?

The Green Knight on screen: what can we expect from the retelling of an Arthurian epic?

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero

King of the world: how Louis XIV turned France into a global power

From Hollywood to war heroes: 10 Olympians who were more famous outside sport

Olympic oddballs: 5 unusual Olympic sports from the past

A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics

Reign of the red terror: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution

The slave trade: a family history

What was the Chernobyl Disaster?

Tokyo Olympics 1964: the Games that defined Japan

The piano: a musical history

Q&A Why do we say 'crocodile tears'?

Q&A When and where were the first Paralympics held?

Tudor tunes: music at the courts of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James VI and I

The first modern Olympics: what happened at the 1896 games?

Should they stand or fall? The great statue debate

Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla: the history behind The Current War

The church in medieval England: everything you wanted to know