Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

What was life like as a peasant?.

The history of museums: everything you wanted to know.

Video podcastHappily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen’s era.

The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip.

Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington

Bridgerton: the real history explained

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

A surprising history of sex between men.

History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries.

Swedish pop group ABBA performs during the Eurovision Song Contest

When was the first Eurovision and who won? Plus 6 facts on the history of the song contest

Video podcastAztec myths.

Inside a Jim Crow asylum.

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

General Early Modern

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft.

Alan Bates (played by Toby Jones) in the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office (Photo by ITV Plc)

The Post Office scandal: the history behind the British institution.

Video podcastScandals that shocked Georgian Britain.

Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion.

Video podcastIndian experiences in WW2.

A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Your guide to Neanderthals, plus 7 fascinating facts

Victorian women gossip at the opera (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

Sex, sadism and sugared death: 8 scandals that rocked Victorian Britain.

Slave markets – as shown in this engraving – were a staple of most Roman towns (Image by Alamy)

Ancient Roman slavery: what was life like as an enslaved person?

The Evil May Day Riots of 1517: what happened?

Smash hits: 17th-century style.

OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world.

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America.

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain.

Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century.

The American Peace Commissioners negotiating the Peace of Paris at the end of the American Revolutionary War: (from left to right) John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and Franklin's grandson William Temple Franklin.

Temple Franklin: the real story of Benjamin Franklin’s grandson

An African perspective on the history of Africa.

Video podcastAlcatraz: everything you wanted to know.

Lord Byron: 9 objects that defined the infamous poet's life and story.

Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster.