Social history

Newspaper front page with headline 'Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer'

Why we should remember The Roswell Incident

A Maria Spilsbury painting of a group sat at a drawing room table

Regency romance and a real-life Anne Elliot

Pro-choice and pro-life advocates outside the Supreme Court in the 1970s, following the Roe v Wade decision. (Photo by Diana Walker//The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images)

A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

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British schools and education: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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On the streets of 19th-century London . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776, from a painting by John Trumbull. The men standing are (l to r) John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Your guide to the 1776 American Declaration of Independence

A man walking past a pile of uncollected rubbish during the Winter of Discontent, 22 September 1978

Q&A What was the Winter of Discontent?

An overturned vehicle on tramlines as a blockage to traffic during the General Strike of 1926

A brief history of strike action

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From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Protesters urge the government to help elderly people with their energy bills at Downing Street in 2022

Inflation then and now: Britain’s century of boom and bust

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book

General History

Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

An angry crowd of around 400 miners blockade National Coal Board boss Ian McGregor inside a colliery office at Ellinton Colliery, 22 February 1984

Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85

Guitarist David Crosby of the Byrds performs with his band in front of a large crowd at the Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais, June 1967. (Image by © Henry Diltz/Corbis)

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From Ancient Greece to Glastonbury: a brief history of music festivals

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

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An environmental history of big business