Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

'Madness' and the supernatural.

QuizIntroduction to the Regency.

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800

Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain.

A Christmas feastThree historical festive recipes.

Consuelo Vanderbilt reclining for a photograph.

Dollar princessesThe American heiresses who changed the face of British aristocracy

1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

A cartoon about the Tea Act shows a colonist reading the proclamation with concern

What was the 1773 Tea Act?

Video podcastVictoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history.

Video podcastThe American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know.

The American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know.

American suffragettes picket a building

The global legacy of the Boston Tea Party.

This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773

Boston Tea Party: your guide to the protest that ignited a revolution

Video podcastMedieval manners: social etiquette in the Middle Ages.

Video podcast1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

Gravestones displaying the names of pets

Pet cemeteries: where have beloved animals been laid to rest through the centuries?.

Video podcastThanksgiving: everything you wanted to know.

David Tennant returns as the Doctor

Ranked: the best historical episodes of Doctor Who

An illustration of pilgrims on horseback.

The A to B of medieval travel: 8 tips for travelling in the Middle Ages.

Video podcastResistance in the Second World War.

Vintage photograph of a gentleman from the Victorian era c1880 with a bushy moustache.

General History

A hairy history of the moustache

A cartoon image of feet in front of the sea

Life hacks from historyLearn to relax.

The Meux & Co. brewery on Tottenham Court Road in c1830

The London Beer Flood of 1814: what happened in the deadly tragedy?

Toy Story, starring cowboy Woody

10 milestones in Disney's 100-year history

A 1793 etching by Thomas Rowlandson shows a person in bed with bugs covering their bare behind.

General History

Roasted cats and acid: 5 ways our ancestors tried to get rid of bedbugs

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a "vivid running commentary" on a century of British life

A coloured engraving of Richard Whittington, wearing red robes and hat

How the real Dick Whittington lives up to his pantomime

Image of an atrium from ancient Rome. There are people milling around and a fountain.

What were houses like in ancient Rome?

A graphic of a detective looking through a magnifying glass at an old fountain pen with a skull on the nib.

The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain