History in the home

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

Britain’s first self-service supermarket, Sainsbury’s in Croydon, opened in 1950. (Sainsbury’s)

A brief history of shopping

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 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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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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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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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.

Royal Collection Trust / copyright Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014

Single use only in relation to the exhibition 'Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden' at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Photographs must not be archived or sold on.

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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