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Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?

InterviewCharlotte Lydia Riley: “We need to get rid of the idea that Britain was humanitarian in its imperialism. That needs to go”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aeronauts James Glaisher (left) and Henry Coxwell (right) pose in the basket of their hot air balloon

The balloon-riding Victorians who courted disaster: the true story behind The Aeronauts

German tank at the battle of Kursk, 1943. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images)

Second World War

The 1943 battle of Kursk: was it the biggest tank battle in history?

Harry-Williams-Bulkeley sitting at a table with silver candlesticks

My life in historyInternational head of silver at Christie’s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The poor man and the pilgrim receive hospitality at a monastery in this 13th century miniature (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How to go on a medieval pilgrimage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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