Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Moscow 1980: going to the games.

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The Vicar of Bray

Scenes of frivolity in the 16th century. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Bad sports? Puritan attempts to ban games in 17th-century England.

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The vulgar tower

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Guinness o'clock

An illustration depicting medieval pilgrims. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The LibraryMedieval tourism: pilgrimages and tourist destinations.

Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images)

Second World War

The LibraryThe world in flames

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and British prime minister from 1782–83, was instrumental in the Genevan exiles’ move to southern Ireland. (Getty Images)

The watchmakers of Waterford.

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Trabi jokes

Second World War

German bomber insurance

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A Rough Justice

Q&A: How did the Romans write fractions?.

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Rabbit holiday

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Thrash away!

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Golf vs Work

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The Schartz-Metterklume Method

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The Wipers Times

Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe Thames triumphant: royal parties on London's grandest street

A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Paris 1802.

Two medieval men thresh a sheaf of wheat in this 14th century illustration. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Michael Wood on the history of you and me.

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Wife for sale

The Queen's silver jubilee took place in 1977. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Why the Seventies still matter

What are the origins of the ‘mutes’ that attended Victorian funerals?.

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Who's winning?

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Holocaust

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The patient

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Going public: history beyond the academy

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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England

When did the practice of funeral rings begin/end and how widespread was it?.

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The White Man’s World