Dockers unloading wine barrels

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Soviet science and feeding Britain at war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

Who was the first ever teenage heartthrob?

Black British history and Charles I’s children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Italian poet Francesco Petrarch

Q&AHow and when did the medieval period get its name?

Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow

Reporting from war zones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A London slum family stood in a street with all their possessions following eviction, c1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell

Roman silver denarius coins AD 72 till 200 and were offered up at the beginning of the 4th century AD, from the Nydan Bog archaeological site. (Photo by Clare Rowan)

From bes to Bitcoin: alternative currencies in the ancient Roman world

Adrian Turner as Poldark. (Photo by BBC Pictures)

Poldark’s Cornwall: the history behind the hit series

The Aberfan disaster and women who made history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicting the storming of the Tuileries. (Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Socialite, spy, saviour: Grace Dalrymple Elliott

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament

Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did women revolt in Europe?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics

Holocaust landscapes

What are the historical origins of darts?

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

The 1920s: Roaring or tame?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emil Zátopek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The running revolutionary

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s

The Cold War and the history of philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Forgotten science: 7 of the strangest scientific theories in history

Photo of pencils

Q&AHow old is the pencil?

The history of... re-enacting battles

The history of the suntan

Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

9 haunted historic houses

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

1966: when the swing turned sour