Housing

Life in the workhouse podcast with Peter Higginbotham

Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

At dinner, St Marylebone Workhouse, London, c1901 (1903)

The rise and fall of the workhouse

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Osborne House from terrace.

Inside Osborne: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's island residence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Falkner Street, Liverpool in the 1960s. A house on this road was the star of a 2018 BBC series. Image by Nick Hedges

David Olusoga on house histories: "Our homes are often the sites of great dramas and tragedies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England. (Photo by Getty Images)

The house that Bess built: the secrets of Hardwick Hall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In 1945 there were two million more ‘potential’ households than actual homes, in part exacerbated by the wartime damage to housing stock (Coventry, for example, lost one third of its homes in the Blitz). Here, displaced people in east London wait on the street. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of homelessness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Hitler and architects visiting the construction site of the Berghof around Christmas 1935. From left to right: Leonhard Gall, Gerdy Troost, Hitler, and Wilhelm Brückner, Hitler’s chief adjutant. (United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland)

Second World War

Where did Adolf Hitler live? The homes of the führer and how they were used as Nazi propaganda

A councillor and architects discuss plans for the Moss Heights development in Glasgow, 1953. Proponents of high-rise flats believed that they would provide

The LibraryHave high-rises ever been the answer to our housing woes?

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman ruins in Ancient Ostia with the tenements of Serapide

FeatureFive facts about Roman insulae

A London slum family stood in a street with all their possessions following eviction, c1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell

Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

9 haunted historic houses

Britain’s Second World War and the Country House. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

5 hidden killers of the Victorian home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dinner at a Victorian workhouse

History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

The historians’ take on… The house price boom

Living in the shadow of the workhouse. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A brief history of home ownership in Britain

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.