Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

British Army National Service recruits

National Service: here's what you need to know about the history of Brits being conscripted into the Armed Forces

Galileo: life of the week

What was life like as a peasant?

The history of museums: everything you wanted to know

Video podcastHappily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen’s era

The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip

Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington

Bridgerton: the real history explained

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

A surprising history of sex between men

History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries

Swedish pop group ABBA performs during the Eurovision Song Contest

When was the first Eurovision and who won? Plus 6 facts on the history of the song contest

Video podcastAztec myths

Inside a Jim Crow asylum

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

General Early Modern

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft

Alan Bates (played by Toby Jones) in the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office (Photo by ITV Plc)

The Post Office scandal: the history behind the British institution

Video podcastScandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion

Video podcastIndian experiences in WW2

A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Your guide to Neanderthals, plus 7 fascinating facts

Victorian women gossip at the opera (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

Sex, sadism and sugared death: 8 scandals that rocked Victorian Britain

Slave markets – as shown in this engraving – were a staple of most Roman towns (Image by Alamy)

Ancient Roman slavery: what was life like as an enslaved person?

The Evil May Day Riots of 1517: what happened?

Smash hits: 17th-century style

OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain

Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century

The American Peace Commissioners negotiating the Peace of Paris at the end of the American Revolutionary War: (from left to right) John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and Franklin's grandson William Temple Franklin.

Temple Franklin: the real story of Benjamin Franklin’s grandson

An African perspective on the history of Africa

Video podcastAlcatraz: everything you wanted to know