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History in the home

Would you sleep in a medieval home? (There'd be no privacy and it might smell of bacon)

"I can lose myself for hours in a hypnotic trance": why we should all spend more time in archives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

What time of the day did medieval people eat?

From slums to suburbs: Britain’s council house revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Olusoga on house histories: "Our homes are often the sites of great dramas and tragedies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A brief history of shopping. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Top 5 Dickensian recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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

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

A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

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

Q&AWhen was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian Christmas: 3 recipes to try at home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

10 tips for surviving on the home front during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A brief history of home ownership in Britain

The other Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

At home with the Romans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

Toys and games that killed in Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Vikings at home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The English landscape garden. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.