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The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Ide B Wells

Ida B Wells: civil rights activist and scourge of lynch mobs

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

What’s next for period drama?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A hard-fought history of trespass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“A eulogy to the cult of chivalry”: what can Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tell us about Edward III and the Hundred Years’ War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Representations of digits from the ninth century, 11th century and the present day

Digital revolution: the evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals

Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi's quest for the supernatural

LectureNiall Ferguson on the politics of catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antwerp: city of innovation & intrigue. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A runner is helped across a finish line

21 key moments in the history of the modern Olympics

A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: What was the punishment of being ‘burnt in the hand’?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medal winners on a podium

Q&AWho won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

How assassinations have changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight an adaptation of the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

The Green Knight on screen: what can we expect from the retelling of an Arthurian epic?

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Persian ambassador bows before Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles

King of the world: how Louis XIV turned France into a global power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images)

From Hollywood to war heroes: 10 Olympians who were more famous outside sport