Social history

A statue of Alice Nutter

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup

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Pod Lucy Delap WL

Learning disabilities: an overlooked history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An early Peace People march in Belfast’s Woodvale Park

What was the Peace People movement in Northern Ireland?

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia “The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

A portrait of Chevalier d’Éon presenting as a woma

Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

Second World War

What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

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Pod Robin Gerber WL

How Barbie changed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Victorian family gathers around a graveside

Q&A What were Victorian burial societies and why were they formed?

An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

General Early Modern

The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel

Inflation hit Britain hard in the 1970s. Here activist Erin Pizz addresses a protest by housewives holdiing placards decrying rising food prices in July 1971

Q&A UK inflation: how does today’s economic crisis compare to the 1970s?

Video NHS How celebrate WL

How should we see the NHS’s history on its 75th anniversary?

A man winces as he receives a flu vaccination

How Britain fell in love with the NHS