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Women at Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta Houses of University of California at Los Angeles in 1952

General History

What is Greek life?

Norse god of war and All-father, Odin, next to Germanic princess Brunhild

General History

Fierce and furious: who are the most powerful gods of war throughout world history?

Tartan: everything you wanted to know

Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author

Stealing the Mona Lisa

The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know

Francis Drake: life of the week

Our long obsession with the end of the world

The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know

History's greatest cities: Mexico City

A Painting of The Grand Canal in Venice

General Early Modern

Q&AThe Grand Tour: a rite of passage for Europe’s elite

Video podcastAncient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know

Smash hits: 17th-century style

Shakespeare, depicted in a later image based on a contemporary portrait

Race, love & money: 8 Shakespeare plays that reveal the past

Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century

A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery

St David, patron saint of Wales, in stained glass

Who was St David? The history of St David’s Day and its traditions

Video podcastThe West's enduring fascination with Asia

Regency Masterclass, with Dr Lizzie Rogers

The West's enduring fascination with Asia

Portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns

Robert Burns: 7 facts about the life and work of Scotland's national bard

VideoRegency culture

A Regency gentleman greets a row of ladies

Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England

QuizIntroduction to the Regency

Johannes Gutenberg examines a page from the moveable type printing press that he invented

Who invented the printing press?

Men in boats on the River Thames survrying swans

General History

Does the Warden of the Swans exist – and does the royal family own all the swans in Britain?

A range of Barbies at a New York toy fair, 2019

Barbie: a forward-thinking and a behind-the-times image of womanhood

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain