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Agriculture

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Animals

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Archaeology

St Paul’s Cathedral

Architecture

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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

Illustration of a couple

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

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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An edited image of a man with long curly hair and a lacy ruff. The right hand side of his face is colour inverted so it appears black with a red eye

The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A montage of images showing a man standing in the ruins of Hiroshima; a man dressed smartly wearing circular glasses; and a Japanese family with two parents sitting down with five children around them

Senkichi Awaya: the lost mayor of Hiroshima. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

an illustration of a pale blue gravestone with several small drawings on it, including a moon, a heart, a ring and some flowers. Around the gravestone there are flowers and it is set against a bright blue background

Why we should be better about talking about death, with Dr Helen Gittos. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kings and Queens

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King Æthelstan: England's colossus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A drawing of a king holding a crown on his head, against a black and white image of a church

Far away from England, the mystery of Harold Godwinson's lost crown might have just been solved

What if Harold died at Stamford Bridge, not Hastings?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jonathan Healey: “A connection was made between the rarefied world of the royal court and the politics of the street”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women's History

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

From a scandalous threesome to classical stardom: the actress who found redemption in Handel’s Messiah. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Flower power: how plants transformed the lives of 17th-century women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

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Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

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.

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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.

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.

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TV and Radio

Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark in 'Passage to India'

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

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9 things you might not know about Sherlock Holmes

A woman in a grey cloak holds a swaddled infant to her shoulder

Edith the Fair: the life of Harold Godwinson’s first wife

Luther Ford as Tostig Godwinson in BBC drama King and Conqueror

How Tostig Godwinson’s brotherly betrayal hastened the fall of the Anglo-Saxons

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