Illustration of strange creatures

Weird and wonderful history

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Frames in focus

The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder.

Amazing inventions and London after dark.

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner.

A 1950s woman at a grocery store. (Photo by ClassicStock / Alamy)

9 ways our food shopping habits have changed since 1947.

Roman wallpainting of a dinner party, Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy)

What did people eat in Ancient Rome?

BBC History Magazine

Sexy shoes: 5 things our footwear has said about us through history

BBC History Magazine

Pleb: a history of the word that sparked ‘plebgate’

Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century

Beat the teacher quiz: could you pass Year 7 history?

9 astonishing deaths reported in Victorian newspapers.

6 beds that made history

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: at home in a doll's house

5 things beards tell us about history.

A brief history of tattoos.

Germany through the centuries and Hitler’s cocaine habit.

10 strange historical facts about Finland.

The history of Sherlock Holmes - in pictures

A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain

The rise of Homo sapiens.

Second World War

Amazing history pictures: Hitler in disguise

BBC History Magazine

Old news: A tiger braves the mean streets of east London

Secret lives of ancient Egyptians revealed by CT scans of mummies

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

Hitler’s jazz band: how the Nazis used swing as propaganda.

17th-century 'Great British Bake Off' recipes.

BBC History Magazine

Top five hauntings in history

The bloody world of Georgian female boxing.

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

An illustration of a Tudor street

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung.

7 Victorian jokes have been given a modern twist - and they're hilarious