Charlotte Hodgman

Charlotte Hodgman is Strategic Projects Editor for HistoryExtra. She currently looks after the HistoryExtra Academy and was previously editor of BBC History Revealed, and deputy editor of BBC History Magazine - although not at the same time. She also makes the occasional appearance on the HistoryExtra podcast

The opthalmoscope revolutionised ophthalmology, allowing physicians to examine the inside of the human eye. (Image by Getty Images)

Victorian medicine: why the 19th century was a time of seismic medical change

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?

Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stealing the Mona Lisa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra Academy D-Day and the Normandy Campaign quiz: week two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Smash hits: 17th-century style. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American Gothic by Grant Wood

QuizArt decades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hamida Djandoubi, 28, being led down a tunnel by a police official ahead of his execution in October 1977.

General History

10 strange historical facts that sound fake

A composite of Elizabethan images

The Elizabethan era: your guide to life during the 'Golden Age'

Video podcastLove: a weird & wonderful history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Regency Masterclass, with Dr Lizzie Rogers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Love: a weird & wonderful history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcast'Madness' and the supernatural. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

'Madness' and the supernatural. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George III

The illness and decline of King George III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastVictoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastThanksgiving: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thanksgiving: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scotland’s last witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life of the weekMary I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Renaissance beauty regimes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dog history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.