Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Victorian life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that "slum-dwellers were not all very dirty - or, at least, they didn't choose to be". (Photo by Getty Images)

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were 'happy'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?

General History

QuizMatch these famous moustaches with the historical figures

My history heroSteve Hackett chooses Thomas Paine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastRoman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“Impaled on a stake and left to die”: crime, punishment and law enforcement in ancient Egypt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A collage showing historical babies. Edward VI as a baby, Edward VIII as a baby, and a depiction of the baby Jesus.

Historical baby names: a guide to baby name trends from the Anglo-Saxons to today

Video podcastThe Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastTea history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian women detectives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A hidden history of black civil rights

How did the US get so many guns?

King George V crosses a river in Nepal, 1912. “Historians have moved the discussion on empire in all sorts of directions over many years,” says Bronwen Everill. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

The challenge of writing histories of the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on crafting a national narrative“We need a meaningful story for the new generation – our composite union”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "I wish that there was no need for specialist history months". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on the rise of Britain's universities. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our 10,000-year quest for equality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century depiction of a lady and youth playing a game of draughts (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

War and pieces: 5 games from history that were about much more than fun. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norse god of war and All-father, Odin, next to Germanic princess Brunhild

General History

Fierce and furious: who are the most powerful gods of war throughout world history?

Video podcastPractical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of migration: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A section of the Via Flaminia – the ancient route linking Rome with Rimini – in Fossombrone (Photo by karayuschij/Getty Images)

“Roman roads turn up so often” | Catherine Fletcher on what the Romans did for European transport networks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Board games

How games changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kichenware displayed in Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1930 Edition (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

Counter revolution: how the kitchen changed in the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.