Social history

EEmily Davison is felled by King Edward VII’s horse, Anmer, moments after trying to grab his reins during the running of the Derby, 4 June 1913. The suffragette suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries. She died four days later. (Getty)

Emily Davison: the suffragette martyr

Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

The 1992 LA riots

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Man and woman using a long-handled wooden paddle to bake bread in an oven, 15th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval food

Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century).

Cosmopolitan Chaucer: Marion Turner on the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life

An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies.

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century

What's History's Greatest Mystery?

General ancient history

What is history’s greatest mystery?

Phyllis Schlafly

The woman who opposed equality with men: Phyllis Schlafly and the real history behind Mrs. America

Medieval punishments

How bloody was medieval life?

Ramshackle homes in a Newcastle slum, c1880

From riches to rags: David Olusoga reveals how Britain’s grand houses descended into Victorian slums

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day

David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

A brief history of Memorial Day in the USA

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world