Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

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What did the Tudors think was ‘good’ sex? These tips and tricks were key to relationships in the 16th century

Episode 2Tudor religion: what did people believe?

Episode 1What did Tudor people do for fun?

Episode 3Tudor work: what jobs did people do?

Two men stand next to each other holding large guns. They are dressed in black suits and ties with sunglasses and are standing against a blue and black background. Above them, the words "MIB: MEN IN BLACK" are written

Gray Barker: UFO conspiracy theorist

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Let’s get things done together, like the builders of Stonehenge did

Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge star as Arthur and Edward Guinness

Is House of Guinness a true story? Here’s the real history behind the Netflix drama

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Michael Wood on women's contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry

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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys

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Senkichi Awaya: the lost mayor of Hiroshima

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Why we should be better about talking about death, with Dr Helen Gittos

A black and white photograph shows a group of Japanese military men on a train, while some young women prepare to get on the carriage. A young woman looks back over her shoulder

Kavita Puri on VJ Day: "We don't talk about the war in Asia – which was a messy, complicated conflict"

A man wearing a blue jumper and black trousers stands in front on a large mural of an airport

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "A UK museum that tells the long, rich history of migration is long overdue"

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Michael Wood on lessons on good government from medieval Siena

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Be neighbourly like a Pompeian

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

Hug a tree like a pagan from the margins of Europe

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"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month

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Riddle like an Anglo-Saxon monk

In a white hexagonal frame, there is a black and white image of a playground, with a young boy on a white rocking horse. The background is green

Swings and roundabouts: a history of Britain's playgrounds

From fatal foliage to the perils of ploughing: the Tudor calendar of death

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Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation

Episode 3Beyond the trenches: untold stories of WW1

Be wary of technology’s big promises, but roll with the changes

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Samba schools used the carnival to foreground overlooked histories"

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years

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Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

What did Victorians do with their poo? The battle over the 19th-century excrement explosion

Treasures floating in the waves

Which treasures were lost when Titanic sank, and what did some survivors smuggle onto lifeboats?