History in the home

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

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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Second World War

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League

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

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First World War

The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers

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A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

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

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A brief history of shopping

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Second World War

Hitler at Home: the houses designed to portray the führer as a morally upstanding man

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Watch: 7 weird and wonderful home movies through history

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Century-old unseen British home movies released for first time

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum

Marco Ricci, A View of the Cascade, Bushy Park Water Gardens, c.1715.

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In pictures: The Art of the Garden

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

Second World War

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory

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