Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

A portrait of the writer and antiquarian John Aubrey

John Aubrey: chronicler of the 17th century.

James Watt: your guide to the pioneer of steam engine technology

The perils of piety in Tudor England.

An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Magna Carta myths explained.

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club.

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature.

Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?.

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.