Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

British identity in 50 documents.

Medieval masterclass 4: Revolution 1348-1527.

Language of flowers postcard

Q&AWhat was floriography?.

Valentine's celebrations in historyFrom fertility festivals to the first cards

A portrait of King Charles I

Jane Whorwood: the royalists' secret weapon.

A lobbycard for the 1923 film Is Conan Doyle Right? (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)

The supernatural interests of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The battle of Fishguard: the last invasion of mainland Britain

Georgian Britain: the highs and lows of a transformative age.

A group of Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club

Penelope J Corfield“The Georgian era was a time of experimentation and invention”.

A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment.

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours.

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on.

Episode 1Audio adventures in the 1920s.

Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England's forgotten armed revolution.

BBC employees at work in the control room at the new home at Broadcasting House (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Broadcasting House: a new home for the BBC.

Elitism in cricket: a history.

Medieval masterclass 1: Imperium 410-750.

Princess Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II: the constant face of a changing Britain.

Cold war mind games.

The Gilded Age preview: “Entry into a world that really hasn't been covered on television before”

America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know.

Escaping slavery in the American South.

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

Shining new light on medieval Europe.

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

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&AWhen were punctuation marks first used?

Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide.