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Social history

The Aberfan disaster and women who made history.

A painting depicting the storming of the Tuileries. (Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Socialite, spy, saviour: Grace Dalrymple Elliott.

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament.

Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London.

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe.

Did women revolt in Europe?.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics.

Holocaust landscapes.

What are the historical origins of darts?

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

The 1920s: Roaring or tame?.

Emil Zátopek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The running revolutionary.

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s.

The Cold War and the history of philosophy.

Forgotten science: 7 of the strangest scientific theories in history.

Photo of pencils

Q&AHow old is the pencil?

The history of... re-enacting battles

The history of the suntan

Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

9 haunted historic houses

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League.

Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

1966: when the swing turned sour.

British gunners busily engaged in putting over a curtain barrage. Somme campaign, France, 1916. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Somme soldiers’ stories.

Britain’s Second World War and the Country House.

‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power.

(Photo by illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate.

The Radium Girls and the cotton revolution.

Was Sarah Guppy the real inventor of the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

The most popular historical figures you've (probably) never heard of

Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine.

A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers.