Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Wolfson History Prize 2013 special.

A photograph of photographer George Lowe and Cho Oyu mountain

In picturesThe conquest of Everest.

Ye olde travel guide: Madrid 1621.

A big day in history: Rioters give East Anglia's rich and respectable a fright.

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

At home with the Romans.

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

How the Tudors invented breakfast.

When completed in the early 12th century, Durham Cathedral was "absolutely up-to-the-minute in its design and near-perfect in its execution," says Marc Morris. (Jim Gibson via Getty Images)

Where history happened: Norman churches.

BBC History Magazine

Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood

A noisy history of the world.

BBC History Magazine

Live genealogy show returns to London Olympia

"I read and studied much": Adolf Hitler at his Berghof mountain retreat in c1936. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Hitler's philosophers.

"Although the circus as we know it has its roots in the 18th century, the history of its three basic forms (clowning, equestrianism and animals) goes back much further," says Vanessa Toulmin. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: the circus in Britain.

Image by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Calcutta 1905.

A big day in history: A speck of glitter triggers the California Gold Rush.

Why Magna Carta matters.

A rail revolution: Dan Snow on the meteoric rise of British railways.

The Bank of England in a late 18th century illustration. A 1783 investigation into malpractice at the Bank is reminiscent of the current financial crisis. (Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Georgian banking blunders.

Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, gives his 'victory' sign while making a polling day tour of his constituency during an election. (Getty Images)

Are these the most overrated people in history?.

Medieval ploughmen ploughing with oxen

The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons.

First Textbook

Toys and games that killed in Tudor England.

A Mayan funeral mask, made from jadeite and shell

The Maya and the apocalypse.

The Victorian trade in dead bodies.

The Uganda railway, which links Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya, was built during the period of British control of East Africa. (SSPL/Getty Images)

The dark side of abolitionism.

Q&A: Where did the monks go after the dissolution of the monasteries?.

Rosa Parks Riding the Bus

My history hero: Rosa Parks (1913-2005).

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman.

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Q&A: When was the first wheelchair introduced?

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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in 20th-Century England

BBC History Magazine

My generous Daddy