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Art history

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Black history

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Food and drink

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History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

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LGBTQ+ history

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Maritime history

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Military history

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Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

Nazi Germany

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Politics

Lucy Worsley

Popular historians

The Last Supper

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Painting of Daniel Mendoza

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Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

Women's history

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A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

American war of Independence

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Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

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Soldiers in the Crimean War

The Crimean War

Social History

An illustration of a woman in a gold and red dress walking on a tightrope while balancing a pair of scales on her head. The scales hold an angel on one side and a devil on the other. Behind her on the tightrope, there is a cat. Below her, there is a town and a factory, with some houses submerged in water

Michael Wood on lessons on good government from medieval Siena. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

On a green background, there is a sketch of a human pyramid of people in togas, all balancing fruit on their heads, arms and feet

Be neighbourly like a Pompeian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A picture of Freddie Mercury. He is wearing a white vest top with white jeans and he is holding a guitar behind his head. At the top of the guitar, a bright white light shines

The Age of Spectacle: Live Aid at 40. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hug a tree like a pagan from the margins of Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kings and Queens

A drawing of a king holding a crown on his head, against a black and white image of a church

Far away from England, the mystery of Harold Godwinson's lost crown might have just been solved

What if Harold died at Stamford Bridge, not Hastings?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man in a grey T shirt and blue jeans sits with his arms crossed, facing the camera. He has dark curly hair and wears glasses

Jonathan Healey: “A connection was made between the rarefied world of the royal court and the politics of the street”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Juliet Stevenson as Emma of Normandy in BBC drama King and Conqueror (Photo via BBC)

Emma of Normandy: not just a two-time queen consort of England

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Women's History

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

From a scandalous threesome to classical stardom: the actress who found redemption in Handel’s Messiah. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Flower power: how plants transformed the lives of 17th-century women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

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Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

A cartoon depicting an ancient Assyrian king sitting upright in bed. His eyes are wide open and he has an anxious expression on his face. An open window to the right of the scene shows the moon and stars

Give away your worries, like an ancient Mesopotamian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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TV and Radio

A woman in a grey cloak holds a swaddled infant to her shoulder

Edith the Fair: the life of Harold Godwinson’s first wife

Luther Ford as Tostig Godwinson in BBC drama King and Conqueror

How Tostig Godwinson’s brotherly betrayal hastened the fall of the Anglo-Saxons

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William the Conqueror in BBC Norman Conquest drama King and Conqueror

How historically accurate is King and Conqueror? Here’s the real history that should have happened

This posthumous portrait of William I, known as the Conqueror, was painted c.1590–1610 and is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. Though created centuries after his death, it reflects early modern interest in the legacy of England’s first Norman monarch. (Photo by Getty Images)

Meet the real William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy who reshaped England

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