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A hidden history of black civil rights

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week.

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: the firebrand feminist thinker with a rule-breaking life

Chinese workers tend a tea plantation in a mid-19th-century lithograph. Importing leaves from China was expensive – until Scottish botanist Robert Fortune introduced the plants to India. (Photo by Getty Images)

Eastern promises: the long and troubled history of Britain's relations with China.

Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines.

How ancient India transformed the world.

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.