Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

1492: The Year Our World Began

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Bringing history to life

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Poxed and Scurvied

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels.

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French Republican Calendar

Wars of music

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Wrong number

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Do we need a museum of British history?

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A British institution

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Pronounced how?

The LibrarySummer holidays and Edward VI.

A detail of a funerary monument from Athens, Greece depicting a squire taming a horse. Holding elaborate funerals was one of the many ways in which aristocrats broadcast their great wealth. (Photo By DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The trouble with luxury.

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A Prussian showman

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The invention of the bathtub

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The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

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The making of Wales

Captain Kidd

The sacrifice of Captain Kidd.

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The New Bath Guide

Schoolchildren helping workmen construct a new estate of pre-fabricated houses in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1946 following the devastation of the Second World War. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Postwar squatters: a very British uprising.

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Grant's exploding cigar

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The Devil's Dictionary

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The bravest of the brave

What are the origins of the British taste for black pepper?

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Samarkand 1404.

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A cure for flu?

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Playing the part of queen for the day

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman.

5 of the worst smells in medieval London

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What are the origins of the word ‘Blighty’ when used to describe Great Britain?

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From pop to politics, the ancient world is here to stay