Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

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.

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?.

Afternoon sunlight casting shadows on the hills, Lancashire, England UK (Getty Images)

The war on witches.

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

England in miniature.

Second World War

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939–45

English Houses 1300–1800

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Best-dressed Briton in history: the nominations

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The American ‘Occupation’ of Britain: Three films

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Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Second World War

Survivors

Historic Jedburgh

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The Excellent Mrs Fry: Unlikely Heroine

Pirates, propaganda and the history of swearing.

What is a deodand?

The reverend in the lion’s den

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Historians are wrong to kick football into touch

A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement.

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How do we record history education?

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Has Britain always united behind commemorations of the war dead?

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Trials of the Diaspora. A History Of Anti-Semitism In England

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Up and Down Stairs

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Bending the Twigs