Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Chinese plague

Q&AWhat was the Third Plague pandemic?

5 facts about the history of the Women’s Institute

7 weird and wonderful medieval facts

Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British sergeant measure the chest sizes of Indian men

Books interview with Yasmin Khan: "By the end of the war, few people in the Raj believed it could continue to exist". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What was the werewolf myth in Ancient Rome?

India at war and mining accidents. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of ancient public toilets

General ancient history

Q&AHow old is the toilet seat?

Photo of Derinkuyu Underground City

Q&AHave people ever lived underground?

Terror in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Tomatina' festival in August 1999. (Photo by Müller-Stauffenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

9 weird and wonderful festivals through history

A portrait of the writer and antiquarian John Aubrey

John Aubrey: chronicler of the 17th century

James Watt: your guide to the pioneer of steam engine technology

The perils of piety in Tudor England

An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Magna Carta myths explained

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature

Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dying well; tears and sorrow on the death of a youth. Treasury of Wisdom, 15th century. (© The Art Archive/Alamy)

Heavenly dew: crying in the Middle Ages

The many lives of India

Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war

Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

Did Britain doom the Lusitania?

The history of India and a terrible explosion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blasphemous Bibles and cannibals at sea: 4 bad days in history

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

Wolfson History Prize 2015 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In picturesStonehenge tourism through history