Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Life in the workhouse podcast with Peter Higginbotham

Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know.

At dinner, St Marylebone Workhouse, London, c1901 (1903)

The rise and fall of the workhouse

Opulent headquarters East India House in London, 1850. From inside this grand building, the East India Company directors oversaw the governance of India and its associated territories (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

1838: A year in the life of the British empire.

Michael Lewis and David MusgroveWhat's missing from the Bayeux Tapestry?.

Britain’s nuclear past: the fallout from the High Explosive Research programme.

Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body.

Two garden gnomes on grass

A brief history of garden gnomes

5 facts about the history of football

What are the challenges of telling LGBTQ history?.

Babies from a nursery are walked in a pram, c1953

A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics.

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré.

17th century engraving showing the execution by hanging of four witches. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

QuizWould you have been accused of witchcraft?.

A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

The 2008 financial crisis explained

A 1782 cartoon by James Gillray that depicts Buller as ‘Judge Thumb’. (Photo by Library of Congress)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘rule of thumb’?

The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England.

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

A brief history of changing hairstyles.

Entrance to Doo Cave, one of the caves in the Wemyss Caves system. Wemyss Caves are home to the largest collection of Pictish-inscribed symbols in one place. (Photo by Getty Images)

General ancient history

Discover Fife: 6 fascinating historical places to explore

In partnership with Welcome to Fife

The Maya: everything you wanted to know.

A flapper shows off her hidden bottles of alcohol

The morning after: the impact of prohibition.

The relationship between Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and her brother George (Jim Strugess) is explored in 2009 film 'The Other Boleyn Girl'

George and Anne Boleyn: their real relationship explored

The Great Fire of London, 2-5 September 1666 (Photo by Alamy)

The Great Fire of London: everything you wanted to know.

A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the battle of Hastings. Anglo-Saxon foot soldiers are seen defending themselves with a wall of shields against Norman cavalry. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

What the Normans did for us.

Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city

How 17th-century London reacted to the Great Plague.

Eadwine the Scribe, c mid-12th century. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

A history of left-handed writing.

The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know.

Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon

The Textus Roffensis: a medieval manuscript to rival Magna Carta

Tales of Irish emigration.

A union flag flown on HMS Queen Charlotte at the battle known as the Glorious First of June, 1794

Q&AWhen was the Union Jack or Union flag created?

Aesop's fables: The Fox and The Crow. Illustration after 1485 edition printed in Naples by German printers for Francesco del Tuppo. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images

A 'superfluity of nuns' plus 9 more collective nouns that originate from the Middle Ages.

The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers.