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Selfridges: 7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the department store

A Valentine's card showing a devil spearing an old lady on a pitchfork.

In picturesVictorian Valentine's Cards

Amazing inventions and London after dark. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner

A statue of Aphrodite

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

Life in the workhouse and British biographies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war

What clothes did people wear in the Tudor period?

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In pictures: early Victorian photography

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An engraving of Admiral Lord Nelson

Q&AWhy do we say ‘turn a blind eye’?

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Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Huts in Lambeth built for bombed-out families, 1945. (Getty)

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory

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Q&AWhy do we say ‘resting on your laurels’?

A 1950s woman at a grocery store. (Photo by ClassicStock / Alamy)

9 ways our food shopping habits have changed since 1947

Photo of marble relief depicting Hippocrates

Why did Hippocrates eat earwax?

Britain’s love/hate relationship with ‘foreigners’ during the Second World War

Roman wallpainting of a dinner party, Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy)

What did people eat in Ancient Rome?

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Top 10 history quizzes of 2014

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Sexy shoes: 5 things our footwear has said about us through history

The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea in a duel at Battersea Fields. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Pistols at dawn: duelling in the Victorian age

A reconstructed round house at Flag Fen, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. (Alamy)

History Explorer: Life in the Bronze Age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In pictures: the history of Marvel comic books

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Pleb: a history of the word that sparked ‘plebgate’