Social history

Miss Ivy Williams

6 trailblazing women in history

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Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement

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Ancient civilisations and Victorian shopping

Girls shower at a Woodcraft Folk meeting in Stanmore in 1947. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Britain’s green  pioneers

New US citizens celebrate after taking the oath at a US District Court for the Central District of California naturalisation ceremony, 2007. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Simon Schama on American history

A second-century bronze head of Roman Emperor Hadrian

Hadrian: rescuer of the Roman Empire

A 1950s illustration of Vladimir Lenin on the sealed train between Switzerland and Russian. (Alamy)

10 ways to start a revolution

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The school leaving age: what can we learn from history?

An engraving showing chimneys emitting smoke during the Industrial Revolution

Industrial revolution

Can history help halt the runaway train?

An aerial view of Wilton House

Going Dutch: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

Henry VIII, Princess Mary and William Somers

Playing the fool: Tudor jesters

Scout Troop

Baden-Powell, Scouting and the British empire

Alien spaceship landing on rural road

The secret search for aliens

A portrait of William I of Orange. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Death from the shadows: the murder of William the Silent

New recruits march alongside armed officers following the outbreak of the First World War. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

First World War

‘What a  terrible thing is war’