Illustration of a couple

Sex and love

Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner.

A statue of Aphrodite

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history.

A portrait of Richard III.

Inside the mind of Richard III.

Portrait of Henry VIII

Q&AWhich of Henry VIII's wives was his best match?.

Revealed: Jane Austen's country life

First World War

Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

Top 10 strange history stories

Historical sex objects to feature in classrooms

An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

The hidden lives of Henry VIII's six wives.

Viking treasures and Hitler's 'perfect woman'.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call.

BBC History Magazine

Did Robin Hood have a love interest before Maid Marian?

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes.

Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

6 royal births that rocked a nation.

Illustration by Femke De Jong

The generational shift from home births to hospitals

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

At home with the Romans.

A portrait of Jane Austen. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: Jane Austen.

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen.

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

Married to a missionary.

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels.

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman.

BBC History Magazine

You’d be a mug to sneer at royal wedding souvenirs

BBC History Magazine

Should the public pick up the tab for the royal wedding?

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

The truth behind ‘The Tudors’ TV show.