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US president Jimmy Carter stands at a lecturn in front of the US flag

Jimmy Carter: a moral man but a diffident president

History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Supplies train for the Russian transported during deportation to Siberia.

Nazino was Stalin’s worst labour gulag. Its inmates knew it by another name: Cannibal Island

General History

Quiz of the weekWhich famous author was born on 11 January 1928?

Valeria Panepinto as Francesca Amato, Luca Morello as Matteo Amato and Lea Gavino as Sofia Amato in SAS Rogue Heroes.

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

Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The outrageous heretical legend of Pope Joan, history’s only female pope

Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scandals: The Victorians | 3. Bone-crushing hunger in Britain’s workhouses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scandals: The Victorians | 2. 'Little pills of sugared death’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scandals: The Victorians | 5. Corruption down the coalmines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Susan B Anthony: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scandals: The Victorians | 4. The dark heart of Victorian London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scandals: The Victorians | 1. The mother of all sex scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paddy Mayne (left), a founding member of the SAS during WW2, and Jack O'Connell (right) who portrays Mayne in BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes.

The real Paddy Mayne of SAS Rogue Heroes

Second World War

SAS Rogue HeroesThe true story behind the drama

Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical anniversariesJanuary

Embalmed figure of Jeremy Bentham

“A wax head with his own hair had to suffice”: the horror of Jeremy Bentham’s ‘auto-icon’

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

The Second Norman Conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody standing in front of his saddle, holding a rifle behind his back.

13 famous cowboys and gunslingers from the history of the American Wild West

St Paul's Cathedral photographed through the smoke after a night when the German air force bombed London

Second World War

"War's greatest picture"? Inside the night St Paul's Cathedral survived the Blitz

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

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William the Conqueror in series King and Conqueror

General History

Upcoming in 2025: historical anniversaries, exhibitions and television

The ancient Roman goddess Venus with the gods Vulcan and Cupid, in a painting by Italian artist Sebastiano Ricci (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Roman gods and goddesses: 17 of the most important deities of ancient Rome