Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

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'Miracle' cures

Britain’s slaves in Latin America.

The LibraryThe Elizabethan big society.

Mystery and drama with the Romans and the Elizabethans.

Latin American slavery and historical hair.

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

A depiction of enslaved people in a tobacco factory in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1874

General History

Were enslaved people in America ever paid for their work?

My history hero: Douglas Bader (1910–82)

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Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

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Women don’t always change channel when the bombs begin to fall

A woman puts a foundling, or her own unwanted child, into a revolving doorway in a hospital or orphanage wall, intended for unwanted children. (Getty Images)

A mother's love: tokens left with London's foundling babies.

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The Coolidge Effect

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

Where the Black Death happened: 9 places connected to the plague.

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland.

At the edge of reason: shaving and razors in 18th-century Britain.

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The NASA Space Pen

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School history: the hidden success story

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Thin horse

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The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy

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Protection for historical buildings

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Young politician

George III at the end of his reign. He "represented the uncontrollable aspects of humanity that the Enlightenment could not explain," says Stella Tillyard. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period.

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Liar, liar

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965).

The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem.

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Talk like a lady

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The price of smoke

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings.

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia.

Party For Orphans

Postwar refugees: nowhere to go for Christmas.