Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust.

Dying well; tears and sorrow on the death of a youth. Treasury of Wisdom, 15th century. (© The Art Archive/Alamy)

Heavenly dew: crying in the Middle Ages.

The many lives of India.

Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about.

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts.

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war.

Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

Did Britain doom the Lusitania?.

The history of India and a terrible explosion.

Blasphemous Bibles and cannibals at sea: 4 bad days in history

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

Wolfson History Prize 2015 special.

In picturesStonehenge tourism through history

Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

Mary I’s phantom pregnancy.

VE Day special.

Engraving of a brewery

General ancient history

Q&AWho made the first booze?

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: shoes through history

8 weird and wonderful Victorian discoveries.

What did people wear in Ancient Egypt?

A relief portrays patrons of a Roman tavern. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The dangerous streets of ancient Rome.

Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship.

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period.

Gallipoli and famine.

Saladin and suffragettes.

Officers at the Exchequer, 12th century England

Medieval immigration: “They’re heavy drinkers, barbarous and full of guile”.

A portrait of greek scientist Claudius Ptolemy

Books interview with Steven Weinberg: "The history of science can prevent us from making the mistakes of the past".

Magna Carta, the Roman Republic and the Enlightenment: 11 historical concepts explained in minutes.

The Victorians’ surprisingly liberal attitude towards gay men.

What did people in the Tudor period eat?

9 people you didn’t know made history swimming in the River Thames.