Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

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The Coolidge Effect

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

Where the Black Death happened: 9 places connected to the plague

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland

At the edge of reason: shaving and razors in 18th-century Britain

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The NASA Space Pen

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School history: the hidden success story

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Thin horse

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The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy

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Protection for historical buildings

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Young politician

George III at the end of his reign. He "represented the uncontrollable aspects of humanity that the Enlightenment could not explain," says Stella Tillyard. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Liar, liar

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Talk like a lady

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The price of smoke

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia

Party For Orphans

Postwar refugees: nowhere to go for Christmas

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?

Afternoon sunlight casting shadows on the hills, Lancashire, England UK (Getty Images)

The war on witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

England in miniature

Second World War

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939–45

English Houses 1300–1800

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Best-dressed Briton in history: the nominations

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The American ‘Occupation’ of Britain: Three films

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Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Second World War

Survivors