Social history

Pod Natalie Livingstone WL

General History

Women of the Rothschild dynasty

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

Pod David Perry WL

Shining new light on medieval Europe

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

“A defining moment in the Troubles”: why we should remember Bloody Sunday

Pod Mike Carr WL

Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women’s lives like during the 17th-century plague?

When were punctuation marks first used? Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine.

General History

Q&A When were punctuation marks first used?

Pod Edward Brooke Hitching WL

General History

Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100 The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain’s most famous institutions

HEX_Voices_Michael Wood

Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures "The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity"

Pod Edmond Smith WL

Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England

Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams