Topics

Find our favourite historical topics

Agriculture - Getty Images

Agriculture

Animals - Getty Images

Animals

Photo of the Parthenon in Greece

Archaeology

St Paul’s Cathedral

Architecture

Art history - Getty Images

Art history

Black History - Getty Images

Black history

Dunluce Castle ruins

Castles and palaces

Crime and punishment - Getty Images

Crime and punishment

Culture - Getty Images

Culture

Food and drink - Getty images

Food and drink

3-D Movie Viewers

Historical films

History in the home - Getty Images

History in the home

Industrial Revolution - Getty Images

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

Doctor bleeding a patient

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

The swordplay’s the thing: Henry VIII's Masters of Defence and the thrilling world of 16th-century fencing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Basildon Park in Berkshire

The profits of slaveryThe dire impact of empire on Britain's countryside. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ruth Ellis and her friend Desmond Cussen

The true story of Ruth Ellis and the hanging that rocked a nation

Sexuality on trial in colonial America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View more Social History

Kings and Queens

Caernarfon Castle | Royal residences: secrets and scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Buckingham Palace | Royal residences: secrets and scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aethelred II, known as Aethelred the Unready

Aethelred: why was the Anglo-Saxon king called ‘the Unready’?

King James III of Scotland (Photo by Hi-Story/Alamy Stock Photo)

The murder of James III: who killed the king of Scots?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View more Kings and Queens

Women's History

Portrait of Frances Hoggan

General History

7 remarkable women who shaped Welsh history

“In times of political volatility, it’s more vital than ever that we tell women’s stories” | 3 historians on the state of women's history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"I felt very alone in a world gone horribly mad": the experiences of evacuees in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Catherine the Great and (inset) a horse

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse?

View more Women's History

Weird and wonderful

A medieval mystery: the green-coloured children found in an English village. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hever Castle.

Five shocking tales from Britain’s royal palaces

A history of happiness: 5 life lessons from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 'Blue People' of Kentucky

Blue Fugates: the rare blood disorder that turned the ‘Blue People of Kentucky’ blue

More weird history

TV and Radio

Presenter holding a metal ball

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

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

A man stands on a platform in front of a crowd

Second World War

Why Schindler’s List remains relevant decades on

What is the greatest historical movie of all time?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View more TV and Radio