Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941).

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

The march of the Green Shirts.

Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform.

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Money: The Unauthorised Biography

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes.

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New website charts London's well-being across 125 years

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?.

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“Forbear wine and tobacco”: advice for 17th-century university freshers revealed

"People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do"

Bright ideas

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'Britain needs police museum' says crime historian

Music used 'to torment victims of torture in Pinochet’s Chile'

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England.

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

Second World War

Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

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Christians 'airbrushed women out of history'

Great Train Robbery gang: first-class thieves or criminals who got lucky?

A colourful painting from the 15th century showing several merchants gathered together

The LibraryMoving to medieval England.

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The LibraryHistory Explorer: the rise of English Christianity.

General History

What is the origin of the phrase ‘Dutch Courage’?

Residents of Chongqing on the streets of their bombed-ravaged city in the autumn of 1940. China's temporary wartime capital was subjected to 218 Japanese air raids between May 1938 and August 1941, costing nearly 12,000 lives. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

China’s forgotten Second World War.

The master of dressage.

Languishing languages.

My history hero: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946).

When did Italian replace Latin as the language of Italy?

Three coal miners. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

History through the eyes of the working man.

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The 'beautiful' game?

Illustration by Femke De Jong

The generational shift from home births to hospitals