Social history

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My generous Daddy

A sketch of a young woman miner pulling a cart filled with coal. From the report of the Royal Commission, c1842. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

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Hampton Court Palace

The Library Where history happened: a history of disability . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler sits at a table facing a group of young uniformed National Socialists crowded into a small room in the 'Braune Haus' or Brown House, Munich, Germany, c1935. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gasmark 200

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Bob Hope’s Red Scare

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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

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A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The Vikings at home . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A British waitress serves American servicemen inside Rainbow Corner, Piccadilly, January 1945. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: life on the home front . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Banker’s shame

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The Georges

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An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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The correct piece of paper