Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

c60 AD, Queen Boudica of the Iceni holding a spear. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

8 things you may not know about British history.

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Great misconceptions: There is a Nobel Prize for economics.

A group of skaters on a frozen-over backwater of the River Thames at Abingdon, 1895. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A brief history of climate change warnings.

c1935: Beatrice Shilling sits astride her Norton motorcycle. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

5 "bloody brilliant" 20th-century women.

The miller Samuel Wood, whose arm and scapula were torn off when entangled in a rope attached to a moving mill machinery in 1737. (Photo by Alamy)

7 bizarre cases in the history of medicine.

Making the modern world.

A female computer programmer demonstrates a new computer in the 1960s.

The changing role of women in British computing.

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing.

Q&A: Samuel Morse invented the Morse code, but how did he do it, how long did it take, and how long before it was accepted?

Pathologist Thomas Harvey holds the brain of Albert Einstein in a jar, Kansas, 1994. Harvey, the on-duty pathologist during the eminent physicist's autopsy, removed Einstein’s brain and kept most of it stored in two glass jars, refrigerated inside a beer cooler, for more than 20 years. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

Q&AWhat happened to Einstein's brain?

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

Science and suffrage.

Earth Seen from Space Shuttle Discovery 1990

Earth from space: How pioneering photos changed our view of the planet

6 trivial decisions that changed British history.

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

OpinionWas the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?.

In pictures: a history of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Portrait depicting Mary, Queen of Scots.

History quiz - surgeons and Mary, Queen of Scots.

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: The photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, which carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee, near Wrexham, North Wales. The aqueduct was built by Thomas Telford. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Thomas Telford: the man who built modern Britain.

A silhouette in front of a fire.

History quiz – Vikings, mobile phones and the Varangian Guard.

Sheet music.

History quiz – songs, space stations and capital cities.

Eleanor of Aquitaine.

History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Forgotten science: 7 of the strangest scientific theories in history.

Photo of pencils

Q&AHow old is the pencil?

Illustration of electric chair

Q&AWho invented the electric chair?

A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

Monument to Alexander von Humboldt

Books interview with Andrea Wulf: "Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism".

Q&AWhy do we say ‘in the limelight’?

Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?.