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A journey along the Iron Curtain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Astor campaigning

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

Edward VIIA guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

Lawn tennis was a popular activity amongst the upper classes in the Edwardian period.

Daily life in the Edwardian era: from hobbies to gadgets

Fleeing revolution: Russian exiles in Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of TanukhWarrior queen of Arabia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An early 20th century postcard showing young girls dressed in their Sunday best at a temperance rally.

A brief history of the temperance movement in Britain and Ireland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing the Edwardians

The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

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

How FDR transformed the US presidency. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diners watch a waitress chalk up the dishes offered on the day's menu at a British Restaurant in Gillingham, 1941. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/ Popperfoto via Getty Images)

Eat for victory: the British Restaurants of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The death of Queen Victoria. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Indigenous American travellers in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

Billy the KidThe Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

The remains of the Amesbury Archer (2400-2200BC), a burial found near Stonehenge and about 4300 years old, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.

Britain’s greatest archaeological discoveries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The PoWs who survived Nagasaki. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Curious cures for medieval maladies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Good King Hal

My life in historyMike Farley, Henry VIII impersonator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1450 farmworkers planting seeds and harrowing a ploughed field.

Medieval wellness: how our New Year’s resolutions mirror the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An effigy of Henry III

The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England's ultimate family drama

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll: maker of wonderlands

Veggie Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Two women share a tender moment, c1902

Q&AHas it ever been a crime to be lesbian in England?

General History

Historical literature podcast episodes

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

An environmental history of big business. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.