History in the home

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Inside a Roman home . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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

A young couple from the 1950s pouring milk for a baby sat in a popular Formica-branded baby chair. (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

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

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Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

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Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

Q&A When was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?