England

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day

King John hunting on horseback

Was King John really that bad? Yes!

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David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration of King John ripping up Magna Carta

What if... Magna Carta hadn’t been written? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Emma Griffin. (Photographed by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

Books interview with Emma Griffin: “Looking at family life reveals a dark side to Victorian economic progress” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cloisters at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (Photo by Dreamstime)

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

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The Great Plague, from a pictorial broadsheet of 1665-1666 (Photo by Getty Images)

Surviving the Great Plague . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry III during the Second Barons' War

Simon de Montfort and the barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III

Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

Ask the medieval doctor: 6 ailments and their treatments

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Why do brides wear white dresses? Plus the history behind 3 more wedding traditions

A medieval couple being married by a clergyman

Love and marriage in medieval England

Black and white image of the Victorian memorial statue of Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 in London, England, UK who was an English nurse known as 'the lady with the lamp, who cared for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War

Why Florence Nightingale was so much more than the ‘Lady with the Lamp’

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Florence Nightingale

The life and legend of Florence Nightingale . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Barry Cunliffe and a team of archaeologist roll up a Roman mosaic at Fishbourne Roman palace

Roll up, roll up: how the Roman mosaics at Fishbourne Palace were saved