Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

An illustration from ‘A Short History of the English People’ by John Richard Green. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Drowning in Tudor England: why was water so dangerous?

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Those meddling bureaucrats...

A c15th-century vellum shows the Squire from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. For Adam Nicolson, the essence of the gentry was “government-through-networking”. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Stories of the gentry

A postboy drives a mail coach in a contemporary illustration. Soon after their introduction in 1784, coaches were traversing the country at speeds of up to 10mph. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Red Letter Days: 10 milestones in the history of the Post Office

A woman at a floral tribute to Neville Chamberlain at a florist in Ludgate Circus, London, 1938. In the wake of the Munich agreement, the prime minister was understood to be a hero of women everywhere. (Photo by Harry Todd/Getty Images)

The LibraryGuilty women?

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Theological debate

How far could a person expect to travel in a single day on horseback or in a stagecoach?

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Dangerous fruit

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The Eidophusikon

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Night Piece

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Philospher and scholar

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The new hearing aid

English soldiers in the ruins of Palmyre in charge of taking over the Syrian Territory occupied by Vichy’s France. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The untold Second World War

What are the origins of saluting?

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Waiting at the church

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If I ran the country, I’d throw Halloween on the bonfire

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Religious differences

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Looking for bugs

Anti-capitalist graffiti referencing the Nike slogan ‘Just Do It’. Mayday riots, London, 2001. (Photo by PYMCA/UIG via Getty Images)

Opinion: should historians comment on current affairs?

Keith LoweThe trouble with historical monuments

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Clever Tom Clinch

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All history lies to us, but at least historical fiction admits it

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The vegetable plot

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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750–2010

1492: The Year Our World Began

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Bringing history to life

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Poxed and Scurvied

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels

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French Republican Calendar

Wars of music