Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Where, in Ancient Egypt, did people live?

Making of Blodeuwedd, the false flower-woman of Welsh myth. (Photo by Ivy Close Images/Alamy)

Celtic myths: the tales that might have inspired Star Wars and Harry Potter

A brief history of how we fell in love with caffeine and chocolate

Recipes from the Tudor kitchen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

9 strange facts about the history of apples

A vintage photograph showing an unknown man standing behind a stall selling lemonade, root beer and ice cream – among other things.

Q&AWho invented lemonade?

A section of the Seikilos epitaph, the oldest surviving complete musical composition in the world

Q&AWhat is the oldest-known song?

In pictures: Medieval women

Gebelein Man

The big questions of ancient Egypt

Monument to Alexander von Humboldt

Books interview with Andrea Wulf: "Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Death of General Wolfe

The Georgian craze for popular history

The end of the Cold War and British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A year in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Three men wearing hats inspect a sack of potatoes, c1917.

Q&AWhen did the potato catch on in Europe?

19th-century men in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands.

General ancient history

Q&AWhen were trousers first worn?

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. This is one of several replicas of a portrait by Sir Peter Lely. Cromwell is supposed to have said: “I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me… but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts and everything as you see me. Otherwise, I will never pay a farthing for it.”

Why do we say 'warts and all'?

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history

Suffragette: ‘a moving and inspiring film that must be seen’

A brief history of Royal Navy search & rescue 1915–2015

An illustration of the Georgian underclass

The power of the Georgian underclass

The LibraryThe History Essay: How Europe rose from the dead

New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vulcan caught Venus and Mars in a net and shows them to the laughing Gods. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Religion in ancient Rome: what did they believe?

A group of girls taking a bath as part of a contest to see who can wash the fastest.

General prehistory

Q&AHow old is bathing?

Celts special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

How significant is Scotland’s ‘No’ vote? Historians debate

The Somme and the Jacobites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Black Market camera seller

Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime