Social history

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

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Second World War

Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

Christians ‘airbrushed women out of history’

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Great Train Robbery gang: first-class thieves or criminals who got lucky?

A colourful painting from the 15th century showing several merchants gathered together

The Library Moving to medieval England

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A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The Library History Explorer: the rise of English Christianity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Glen McBeth

General History

What is the origin of the phrase ‘Dutch Courage’?

Residents of Chongqing on the streets of their bombed-ravaged city in the autumn of 1940. China's temporary wartime capital was subjected to 218 Japanese air raids between May 1938 and August 1941, costing nearly 12,000 lives. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

China’s forgotten Second World War

The master of dressage

Languishing languages

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John Maynard Keynes.

My history hero: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Venice in 1338, after a manuscript in the Bodleian Library. (Bridgeman Art Library)

When did Italian replace Latin as the language of Italy?

Three coal miners. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

History through the eyes of the working man

The ‘beautiful’ game?