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Agriculture - Getty Images

Agriculture

Animals - Getty Images

Animals

Photo of the Parthenon in Greece

Archaeology

St Paul’s Cathedral

Architecture

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Art history

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Black history

Dunluce Castle ruins

Castles and palaces

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Crime and punishment

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Culture

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Food and drink

3-D Movie Viewers

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

Doctor bleeding a patient

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

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

Politics

Lucy Worsley

Popular historians

The Last Supper

Religion

Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

Illustration of a couple

Sex and love

Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Painting of Daniel Mendoza

Sport and leisure

Boys watching TV in the 1950s

TV and radio

Illustration of strange creatures

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

Tudor love and sex: inside the 16th-century bedroom.

Episode 4Tudor childhood: what were children's lives like in the 16th century?.

Episode 6Keeping clean in the 16th-century: how often did ordinary Tudors wash?.

Episode 5What did ordinary Tudors eat?.

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Kings and Queens

A painting showing a man dressed in armour, with a blue and red flag over him, riding a white horse amongst a busy battlefield

5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Tudors.

A collaged picture shows a marble statue of Elizabeth I wearing a large crown on the left, and a portrait of King James I, dressed in a red and white robe and crown on the right

The lie of succession: did James I steal Elizabeth I's crown?.

An illustration showing a king dressed in green and orange, sitting on a blue throne made out of books. He is reading from a long scroll

Love learning like Æthelstan.

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry shows a group of men sitting at a high

Why you should avoid hair-pulling, and cannibalism, at royal banquets.

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Women's History

Isabel Allende and Inés Suárez

My history heroIsabel Allende chooses Inés Suárez.

An illustration shows five women in colourful headscarves sewing a large piece of cloth with soldiers and horses on it

Michael Wood on women's contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry.

An edited image of a man with long curly hair and a lacy ruff. The right hand side of his face is colour inverted so it appears black with a red eye

The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys.

A drawing of a king holding a crown on his head, against a black and white image of a church

Far away from England, the mystery of Harold Godwinson's lost crown might have just been solved

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Weird and wonderful

A women with a shocked face next to a calendar with the date of Friday the 13th

Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

A cartoon depicting an ancient Assyrian king sitting upright in bed. His eyes are wide open and he has an anxious expression on his face. An open window to the right of the scene shows the moon and stars

Give away your worries, like an ancient Mesopotamian.

A fairy in a green dress balances on the palm of a hand with a yellow background

Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life.

Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans.

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TV and Radio

Still from 'The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots'

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

Author/veterinarian Dr. James Alfred Wight (pen name James Herriot) holding up a black cat that he is examining at his veterinary surgery. (Photo by Ian Cook/Getty Images)

Who was the real James Herriot?The true story behind All Creatures Great and Small

The real Edward Guinness, Earl of Iveagh (right), played by Louis Partridge (left)

Who was the real Edward Guinness of House of Guinness?

Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, played by Anthony Boyle

Who was the real Arthur Guinness of House of Guinness, and what happened to him?

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