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Agriculture

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Animals

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Archaeology

St Paul’s Cathedral

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Art history

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Black history

Dunluce Castle ruins

Castles and palaces

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Crime and punishment

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Culture

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Food and drink

3-D Movie Viewers

Historical films

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History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

People march with a large rainbow flag in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Image by Photolibrary / Getty Images Plus)

LGBTQ+ history

Illustration of a Medieval Scribe

Literature

A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

Maritime history

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Medicine and health

The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

Ancient Griffin-lion relief

Myths and legends

Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

Nazi Germany

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

Politics

Lucy Worsley

Popular historians

The Last Supper

Religion

Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

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Sex and love

Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Painting of Daniel Mendoza

Sport and leisure

Boys watching TV in the 1950s

TV and radio

Illustration of strange creatures

Weird and wonderful history

Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

Women's history

Revolution and war

A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

American war of Independence

French revolution

Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

Civil war

Soldiers in the Crimean War

The Crimean War

Social History

What did Victorians do with their poo? The battle over the 19th-century excrement explosion

Treasures floating in the waves

Which treasures were lost when Titanic sank, and what did some survivors smuggle onto lifeboats?

The Enola Gay aircraft, which dropped the first atomic bomb of the Second World War on Hiroshima.

Second World War

Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in WW2 justified?

What was life like in a medieval town? A historical A-Z. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kings and Queens

Plague, famine and chivalry: a human history of the 14th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of James III of Scotland

This medieval king was hunted down and brutally murdered — and we still don’t know who killed him

by Anthony van Dyck

"Tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy": was Charles I really that bad?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III. (Photo by Getty Images/Alamy)

The final mystery of Richard III: how 21st-century science cracked a 500-year-old cold case. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women's History

Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker's famous banana skirt, which was introduced for Baker’s performance at Paris’s Folies Bergère – an act with which she soon became synonymous.

Singer, dancer, Nazi-fighter: how Josephine Baker became a WW2 heroine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joanna Plantagenet: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor angels of death: the 16th-century obsession with female killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

A cartoon depicting an ancient Assyrian king sitting upright in bed. His eyes are wide open and he has an anxious expression on his face. An open window to the right of the scene shows the moon and stars

Give away your worries, like an ancient Mesopotamian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A fairy in a green dress balances on the palm of a hand with a yellow background

Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The "outwardly respectable" man who had a body in his basement: how the Dr Crippen case shocked Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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TV and Radio

Still from 'Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius' (Picture by BBC)

History TV and radio in the UK: what's on our screens this week?

Composite image of the historical Talleyrand and his portrayal in Apple TV+ drama Carême

The master of political survival: Talleyrand, the cunning foreign minister of Carême

Was Carême a spy? The true story of the world’s first celebrity chef

Several men stand around a table in a submarine

Whiskey on the Rocks: the real story behind Soviet submarine S-363’s Cold War grounding

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