Dockers unloading wine barrels

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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.

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Q&AWhy do we say ‘resting on your laurels’?

A 1950s woman at a grocery store. (Photo by ClassicStock / Alamy)

9 ways our food shopping habits have changed since 1947.

Photo of marble relief depicting Hippocrates

Why did Hippocrates eat earwax?

Britain’s love/hate relationship with ‘foreigners’ during the Second World War.

Roman wallpainting of a dinner party, Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy)

What did people eat in Ancient Rome?

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Top 10 history quizzes of 2014

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Sexy shoes: 5 things our footwear has said about us through history

The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea in a duel at Battersea Fields. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Pistols at dawn: duelling in the Victorian age.

A reconstructed round house at Flag Fen, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. (Alamy)

History Explorer: Life in the Bronze Age.

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In pictures: the history of Marvel comic books

Sam’s historical recipe corner: Wassail punch.

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Pleb: a history of the word that sparked ‘plebgate’

Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century

Coughton Court, an English country house

History explorer: The gunpowder plot.

An illustration of the Peasants' Revolt

The Peasants’ Revolt: did Richard II side with the rebels?.

Revolutions in Europe and forensics in history.

Picture of a hand holding a candle

Q&AWhy do we say ‘can’t hold a candle to…’?

9 astonishing deaths reported in Victorian newspapers.

Science fiction and dancing in history.

15 things you didn’t know about fashion in the First World War.

6 beds that made history

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In pictures: at home in a doll's house

The ruins of 11th-century Corfe Castle in Dorset, England

Which century saw the most change?.