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Animals

Photo of the Parthenon in Greece

Archaeology

St Paul’s Cathedral

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Art history

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Black history

Dunluce Castle ruins

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Food and drink

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History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

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

LGBTQ+ history

Illustration of a Medieval Scribe

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A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

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Doctor bleeding a patient

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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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Isaac Newton investigating light

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Dockers unloading wine barrels

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Painting of Daniel Mendoza

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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

A contemporary illustration of the Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789 – an event that helped create the idea of 'revolution' as we know it today. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

French revolution

Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

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Social History

The clocks change at South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

A brief history of daylight saving time

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Women's history podcast episodes

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Second World War

Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white photo of a group of women marching while holding a sign saying 'International Women's Day'

A brief history of International Women’s Day: what is it and why do we celebrate it?

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Kings and Queens

King Alfonso XIII of Spain, Charles I of England, Puyi of China and Lydia Liliuokalani of Hawaii

General History

The kingdom is dead What causes monarchies to fail?

Philip Augustus of France (left) and Richard I of England

Medieval masculinity What Richard I can tell us about male friendship in the Middle Ages

A depiction of Empress Wu Zetian

Empress Wu Zetian The only woman to rule China

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

Edward VII A guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

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Women's History

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Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine’s female power network

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Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

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Conspiracy Did someone else write the plays of William Shakespeare?

A composite image showing an astronaut on the moon against a purple sky.

Conspiracy Did NASA fake the Moon landing?

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Conspiracy Did Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

A painting by Dutch artist Hendrick Danckerts shows Charles II’s gardener, John Rose, presenting the king with a pineapple

General History

Pineapples, tulips and follies: 10 status symbols from history

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TV and Radio

Paris Police 1905 S2,2,Adolphe Stenheil (FRANCOIS RAISON),Tetra Media Fiction / Canal+,Remy Grandroques

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

27th April 1946: Miners and steelworkers in Tredegar pay the Workmen's Medical Aid Society twopence out of every pound they earn to go towards their medical, dental and optical services. A nurse bends over a small boy to see to his injuries. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4062 - Where Bevan Got His National Health Plan - pub. 1946

General History

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Amy James-Kelly as Anne Boleyn (right) in Netflix's Blood, Sex & Royalty.

Anne Boleyn’s voice: lost to the past, or louder than ever?

A colourised photomontage depicts a young woman on her deathbed in 1858. The “fasting girls” phenomenon of the
19th century resulted in similar scenes being played out in British and American homes. (Photo by Gado/Getty Images)

Hidden lives Victorian fasting girls

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