Accessibility Links

  • Skip to Main Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Footer
Subscribe Quiz Q&A Events FAQ Unlock The Library
Sign In Register
Sign In Register
Settings Sign out
My account

The official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC World Histories Magazine

Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
    Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
    Period
    Period
    View all Period
    Roman
    Viking
    Medieval
    Tudor
    Victorian
    Second World War
    View all Periods
    People
    People
    View all People
    Tutankhamun
    Richard III
    Henry VIII
    Elizabeth I
    Queen Victoria
    Winston Churchill
    View all People
    Topics
    Topics
    View all Topics
    Kings and queens
    Weird and wonderful
    Sex and love
    Social history
    Women's history
    View all Topics
    Podcast
    Locations
    Locations
    View all Locations
    United Kingdom
    Europe
    North America
    Russia
    Africa
    Asia
    View all locations
    Magazines
    Magazines
    View all Magazines
    BBC History Magazine
    BBC World Histories Magazine
    Special editions
    Newsletter
    The Library
    Subscribe
    Quiz
    Q&A
    Events
    FAQ
    Unlock The Library
    1. Home
    2. Sex and love

    Sex and love

    Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge show their newly-born daughter and their second child Princess Charlotte, to the media outside St Mary's Hospital in central London, in May 2015. (Photo by Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
    General Modern

    5 momentous royal births

    Katherine Parr (also Catherine), the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, c1543. Engraving after a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Katherine was no middle-aged frump but a clever, devout and passionate wife, says Derek Wilson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Katherine Parr: the truth about the wife who ‘survived’

    Advertisement
    Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII in the 1963 film, Cleopatra. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
    General Modern

    The 7 best couples in history

    A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington
    Georgian

    The Library | Georgian Britain: sex in high places

    Subscribe for unlimited access to The Library
    Unlock now
    Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband Albert “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?

    Portrait of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, 1536. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Henry VIII’s six wives in a different light

    Subscribe for unlimited access to The Library
    Unlock now
    German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme, which aimed to raise the birth rate of blonde-haired, blue-eyed ‘Aryan’ children through interbreeding. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
    Second World War

    The woman who gave birth for Hitler

    An engraving showing the story of the Three Living and the Three Dead
    Medieval

    Inside the medieval mind

    Subscribe for unlimited access to The Library
    Unlock now
    Advertisement
    Portrait of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, from a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    11 facts about Catherine Howard

    Coca cola bottles from the 1990s
    Victorian

    From Velcro to Viagra: 10 products that were invented by accident

    Colour portrait of Jane Austen (1775–1817) drawn by her sister Cassandra. Dated 1810. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
    Georgian

    8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Jane Austen

    While young ladies may have been daydreaming of handsome film stars such as Cary Grant, pictured here kissing the cheek of Ingrid Bergman in a publicity still for the 1946 film ‘Notorious’, agony aunts were keen to bring them back down to earth. (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
    General Modern

    How to be a man: tips from 1930s agony aunts

    A Campaign for Homosexual Equality rally held in London’s Trafalgar Square in 1974. The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 helped pave the way for activism such as this in the 1970s, says Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite. (Corbis via Getty Images)
    General Modern

    The 1967 Sexual Offences Act: a landmark moment in the history of British homosexuality

    A view of a calander showing the date, Friday the 13th. (Photo by William C. Shrout/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    Medieval

    10 historical superstitions we carry on today

    • Prev
    • Page 1
    • Page 2
    • You're currently on page 3
    • Page 4
    • Page 13
    • Next

    Sign up to the historyextra.com newsletter for the latest history news

    Thanks! We have added you to our newsletter list.

    By clicking “sign up” you are agreeing to our terms and conditions. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information about how to do this, and how Immediate Media Company Limited (publisher of historyextra.com) holds your personal information, please see our privacy policy.

    Cover of BBC History Magazine
    BBC History Magazine

    Britain's best-selling history magazine helps you bring Britain's and the world's rich past to life.

    Subscribe Today
    Cover of BBC World Histories Magazine
    BBC World Histories Magazine

    A new magazine looking at how world history has shaped our modern times

    Subscribe Today
    Feedback icon
    Feedback

    What do you think of our new look website? We'd love to hear from you

    Give Feedback

    Site footer

    • Visit us on Facebook
    • Visit us on Twitter
    • Subscribe to our RSS feed
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Cookie Policy
    • Code of Conduct
    • Subscribe
    • Contact Us
    • Vacancies
    • Licensing
    • Find Us
    Immediate Media
    History Extra is owned and published by Immediate Media Company Limited. BBC History Magazine and BBC World Histories Magazine are published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Studios Distribution. © Immediate Media Company Ltd 2019.
    Partner logo