Fashion

Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

Beyond fashion: 6 accessories that reveal changing attitudes in society, from the Georgians to the 20th century

Photo of Ginger Rogers

Q&A When did people start wearing sunglasses?

A third-century monument of a Roman woman having her hair styled by slaves, from Germany. High-status women on the frontiers, including at Hadrian's Wall, tried to follow the latest Roman fashions (Photo by DEA / M. BORCHI / Getty Images)

Roman Britain: what six objects can reveal about life for women at Hadrian’s Wall

Woman wearing a bikini

Why we should remember The launch of the swimsuit that scandalised the world

Coco Chanel in Paris, 1929

Why we should remember… How Chanel No 5 revolutionised the beauty business

Men marching with bagpipes wearing tartan kilts

General History

Q&A When did the Scots start wearing tartan – and what did it mean?

A drawing of a Georgian woman in a wide dress and a towering wig

How to survive in the Georgian court

Pod Victoria Finlay WL

General History

Stitching together the history of fabric

Picture of a 19th-century bloomer costume

Q&A When did women start wearing trousers?

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

Peaky Blinders: The story so far, plus the real figures to expect in season 6

18th century French caricature satirising the fashion for enormous wigs

Q&A Did Rococo wigs really have mice?

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First World War

10 surprising facts about First World War uniforms

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments. (Getty Images)

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments

Sue Pritchard, curator of a new exhibition of royal portraits at the National Maritime Museum, discusses how wigs were used to convey royal power. (Image from Getty Images)

Portraits, power and royal wigs

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

A brief history of changing hairstyles