Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

An angry crowd of around 400 miners blockade National Coal Board boss Ian McGregor inside a colliery office at Ellinton Colliery, 22 February 1984

Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85

The Edwardians: everything you wanted to know.

General History

An environmental history of big business

Lost languages & travelling communities: unexpected medieval histories.

Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe.

Has Britain always looked backwards?.

A woodcut of the brain from Andreas Vesalius’s groundbreaking 1543 treatise On the Fabric of the Human Body

The Elizabethans' complex relationship with mental wellbeing.

A stained glass portrait of Dr Samuel Johnson in 17 Gough Square, London Inns court c1989.

"A useful time-capsule of Georgian life": Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary.

Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1.

The Queen's century of change.

Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag during the 1969 lunar landing

How has the world changed during the reign of Elizabeth II?.

Max Schreck took the title role in the 1922 German silent film 'Nosferatu', inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. The film enjoys a cult following. (Photo by ullstein picture / ullstein picture via Getty Images)

“Ghoul-like beyond nightmare dream, they were the living dead”: belief in Vampires through history.

Q&AWere vampires buried with a stake through their heart?

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

General History

The history rich list: the 10 wealthiest people ever

A legacy of inequality: the economic impact of empire.

A lodger disputes his bill with his landlady in this 1812 print by Thomas Rowlandson

What was it like being a renter in Georgian London?.

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

Aerial view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

London history quizTest your knowledge.

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War.

Eurovision: a political history.

Free speech: a brief, contentious history.

Disabled people in Tudor times.

Our collage shows three generations of the Dudley family

The Dudley dynasty: the family behind the Tudors

An illustration of Colonel Blood

What happened to Colonel Thomas Blood?.

Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember…Target Zero Day.

Episode 1Introduction, and a mystery mosaic.

Spain’s tumultuous story.

Medieval childhood: everything you wanted to know.

What is the history behind May Day and why do we celebrate it?