Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

7 Victorian recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman emperors and women through the ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mob sets fire to Newgate Prison during the Gordon Riots

Taxing Catholics: how one Georgian government targeted a religious community

Calendars of the twelve months (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Medieval immigrants: moving to England in the Middle Ages

Second World War

In pictures: The Blitz

An attendant and his guard dog at the world's first pet cemetery, Paris,

A dog’s-eye view of Paris

Far From the Madding Crowd: an interview with Ruth Goodman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

North Sea oil and the Blitz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on... the battle of Agincourt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 'full English' breakfast

Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?

Pearly queens

Q&AWhy does Britain have so many accents?

Q&AWhere does the word ‘posh’ come from?

An illustration of the barons compelling King John to ratify Magna Carta, 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What is the oldest law in England?

Medieval banquet: saying grace before meal. From an engraving of an illuminated medieval Royal Manuscript. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Medieval kebabs and pasta: 5 foods you (probably) didn’t know were being eaten in the Middle Ages

The ‘Spruce Girls’ wearing their specially made wooden bathing suits in 1929. (Credit: © Historic Collection / Alamy)

Second World War

6 weird inventions in history

'The Cricket on the Hearth' published in 1845 by Charles Dickens. (Image by Getty)

Cats in history: 3 curious tributes

A brief history of graffiti and creativity

BBC History Magazine

8 weird and wonderful pictures from the past

Showering, teeth brushing and donning underwear: the strange history of our daily routine

In pictures: Victorian life

Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: medieval life

10 dangers of Georgian London

The daily hustle and bustle in the busy fishing port of Newlyn in Penzance, Cornwall, c1870. (Photo by Gibson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Top 10 historical Cornish words

Lady Murasaki writing 'The Tale of Genji'

5 female trailblazers from history

In pictures: Blackpool beach through time

Ancient thinkers and the history of madness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elton John sings Candle in the Wind at Princess Diana’s funeral, September 1997. (© Getty)

The LibraryThe history of Britain’s talent factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A virtuous Viking: the medieval legend of Havelok the Dane

Witch trials and feuding queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.