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History in the home

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys.

Inside a Roman home.

Medieval banquet

What time of the day did medieval people eat?

Families in a London slum, c1900

From slums to suburbs: Britain’s council house revolution.

The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home.

Falkner Street, Liverpool in the 1960s. A house on this road was the star of a 2018 BBC series. Image by Nick Hedges

David Olusoga on house histories: "Our homes are often the sites of great dramas and tragedies".

Britain’s first self-service supermarket, Sainsbury’s in Croydon

A brief history of shopping.

Oxtail stew. (© CICO Books 2017)

Top 5 Dickensian recipes.

Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Hitler and architects visiting the construction site of the Berghof around Christmas 1935. From left to right: Leonhard Gall, Gerdy Troost, Hitler, and Wilhelm Brückner, Hitler’s chief adjutant. (United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland)

Second World War

Where did Adolf Hitler live? The homes of the führer and how they were used as Nazi propaganda

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home.

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League.

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers.

A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum.

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

Q&AWhen was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?.

Huts in Lambeth built for bombed-out families, 1945. (Getty)

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory.

Victorian Christmas: 3 recipes to try at home.

10 tips for surviving on the home front during the Second World War.

(Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A brief history of home ownership in Britain

The other Elizabethan England.

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

At home with the Romans.

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

First Textbook

Toys and games that killed in Tudor England.

A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The Vikings at home.

The man best associated with the new style of landscape gardening was William Kent (c1686–1748), a Yorkshire-born artist and architect. (Public domain)

The English landscape garden.

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets.