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Housing

Chatsworth House, where Elizabeth I ordered for Mary, Queen of Scots to be imprisoned after she abdicated and fled from Scotland to England in 1567. (Photo by Chatsworth House Trust)

Britain’s 7 most amazing stately homes

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”

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

The marble statue of Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace, designed by her daughter Princess Louise in 1893. (Image by Alamy)

Victoria’s great palaces: 5 of the queen’s grandest and most significant homes

Osborne House from terrace.

Inside Osborne: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s island residence

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”

Woodcut of a woman who may be stoking a furnace or baking bread, printed in the 15th century. (SSPL/Getty Images)

What was life like for a medieval housewife?

From matriarchs and artisans to traders and travellers, Judith Jesch explores the often rich and adventurous lives of women in the Viking age. (Illustrations by Laura Grace Haines)

Viking women: at home and at war

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

The house that Bess built: the secrets of Hardwick Hall

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

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 Library Have high-rises ever been the answer to our housing woes?

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

Escaping the workhouse: the Victorian war on child poverty

Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

A young couple from the 1950s pouring milk for a baby sat in a popular Formica-branded baby chair. (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home