Dockers unloading wine barrels

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Workers working on ruins after the US civil war, circa

Q&AWhat was a scalawag?

Beauty before durability: the interwar beginnings of fast fashion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A baby sits on a toilet and pulls toilet paper from a roll

General History

A brief history of the toilet: wiping, washing – plus, who invented the flush?

Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: how Gurdip Singh Chaggar's murder in 1976 sparked a youth movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Servants: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anxieties of the Edwardian age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump

Are older leaders better? Here’s what history tells us

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The woman who saved the children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Your guide to the 1776 American Declaration of Independence

Climbing monks, wrestling kings and marching nuns: what people in the Middle Ages did to exercise. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval keep fit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General ancient history

The Phrygian cap: how did an item of ancient headgear become a symbol of liberty?

Spanish republican propaganda referring to the term 'fifth column'

General History

Q&AWhere does the term ‘fifth column’ come from?

Victorian scandals: sex, sadism & sugared death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan: the Mongol ruler who conquered China

Bronze figure of Sulis, the Celtic goddess associated with medicine, fertility and healing. (Image by Getty Images)

Exile and exploitation: 5 things you probably didn't know about Roman Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beowulf: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael uses a medieval tool while undertaking further work at Prebendal Manor.

My life in historyHistoric gardener. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings

Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners

Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jason Okundaye on the Black gay community and its tensions: “The movement has always been a broad church”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.