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Sex and love

Victorian wedding, circa 1900: A wedding group poses in the garden, 1900. (Photo by F J Mortimer/Getty Images)
Victorian

Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)
20th Century

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

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Katherine Harvey discusses whether attitudes to sex in the Middle Ages were really so different from our own. (Image by Getty Images)
Medieval

Sex lives of medieval people

Chaucer reading his work to the court of Richard II
Medieval

Katherine Swynford: the scandalous duchess and ancestress of royal dynasties

From the courtesans of Edo Japan to the mollyhouses of Regency London, Kate Lister discusses the long and varied history of sex work. (Image by Getty Images)
Georgian

Sex work: a brief history

Sir Lancelot of the Lake and Queen Guinevere seen embracing by King Arthur in a medieval illustration
Tudor

Tudors in love: what were the dynasty’s romantic secrets?

(Illustration: Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)
Stuart

Beans, ale & ‘windy meats’: surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs

A medieval miniature depicts a monk and a woman in a bed.
Medieval

Sex in the Middle Ages: have attitudes really changed?

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Roman

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Roman women

An ancient Greek vase depicting sexual intercourse
Ancient Greece

A brief history of sex and sexuality in Ancient Greece

A set of Tudor faces laid out on playing cards
Tudor

Why the Tudors fell for courtly love

A portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton
Georgian

Nelson’s sensational mistress: how Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva
Medieval

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and Marguerite Kaye join us to discuss their new historical romance novel, Her Heart for a Compass. (Image from Getty Images)
Victorian

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction

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