Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

Hadrian's Wall

Welcome to Britannia: Roman Britain in AD 130.

Five things you didn’t know about the Caucasus

Banquet at a wealthy home in ancient Rome. (Photo by North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy)

Dormice, ostrich meat and fresh fish: the surprising foods eaten in ancient Rome.

From rations to ready meals: the transformation of the nation’s diet.

Food from the past and the history of illegitimacy.

In pictures: strange creatures through history

Picture of children being put to bed

Q&AWhat was 'pigging'?.

Photo of a horse

Why do we say 'horse of a different colour'?

The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder.

Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

A brief history of medieval magic

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary.

Dinner at a Victorian workhouse

History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse.

Selfridges: 7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the department store

A Valentine's card showing a devil spearing an old lady on a pitchfork.

In picturesVictorian Valentine's Cards

Amazing inventions and London after dark.

Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner.

A statue of Aphrodite

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex.

Life in the workhouse and British biographies.

Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war.

What clothes did people wear in the Tudor period?

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: early Victorian photography

Clock gears in motion

Q&AWhy are there 24 hours in a day?

Photo of Champagne

General Early Modern

Q&AWho invented champagne?

An engraving of Admiral Lord Nelson

Q&AWhy do we say ‘turn a blind eye’?

Bathhouse

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine.

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette.

Huts in Lambeth built for bombed-out families, 1945. (Getty)

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory.