Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

History Extra explains... Who was in charge in Ancient Egypt?

Morris dancers perform

Steps in time: Dancing through history.

Picture of a lion and tiger fighting

Q&AWhere was England's first zoo?

The history of humanity.

Samuel Pepys portrait

My history hero: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703).

What did people eat in Ancient Egypt?

Hunting the regicides and the Chartist movement.

Photo of people eating spaghetti

Q&ADid the Italians invent spaghetti?

Second World War

Amazing history pictures: Hitler in disguise

Soldiers guard England's south coast behind a bank of banned wire on 2 September 1940

Britain's fight for survival: Fortress Britain 1940.

A mad is tied to a stake and burned alive as a crowd, including priests, look on

Heresy: a brief history

Hitler’s jazz band: how the Nazis used swing as propaganda.

17th-century 'Great British Bake Off' recipes.

BBC History Magazine

Top five hauntings in history

The bloody world of Georgian female boxing.

Man biting a bullet

Q&AWhy do we say ‘bite the bullet’?

Q&AWhy do we say 'saved by the bell'?

Quiz - Would you have been accepted to join the army and fight in WW1 in August 1914?.

Kathryn Ferry, UK seaside expert in Hastings, East Sussex

History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution.

Panic ensues in this depiction of the Peterloo Massacre, published in 1819. (The art archive/Getty Images)

Why were there so few casualties at Peterloo?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

10 tips for surviving on the home front during the Second World War.

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

An illustration of a Tudor street

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung.

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

How the Wild West was spun.

A letter-writer depicted by Janez Subic, c1878. (© Getty)

The great Victorian letter swindle.

Crowds in Coronation Park, Delhi, celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryDid Britain make the modern world?

The World War Two French resistance and British holidays.

William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

History explorer: The English landscape garden.

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth.