Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Video podcastLife writing: how to create a Victorian bestseller

Video podcastTemperance in the Victorian era: why did people stop drinking?

Video podcastVictorian newspapers: true crime and titillation

Video podcastThe madcap world of the Victorian circus

Howard with his dad in front of a blue plaque.

My life in historyBlue plaques historian at English Heritage

Illustration of a woman drinking coffee, surrounded by coffee cups

The fascinating history of coffee

Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post, and Truman Capote

The real story of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball

An image depicting St Valentine

Saint ValentineWho was the patron saint of love and lovers?

The race across the Atlantic

Vikings quiz - week two

A group of wartime evacuees take time to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, flipping pancakes in the air

Shrove Tuesday historyWhy do we eat pancakes?

Medieval Ireland: everything you wanted to know

Regency Masterclass, with Dr Lizzie Rogers

Video podcastA history of song: from Schumann to Sting

Video podcastBritain's long love affair with sport

Video podcast'Madness' and the supernatural

Ploughman's for the people: a culinary history of Britain

A member of staff at a food bank

What centuries of cost-of-living crises can reveal

Cultural historian Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding“Europeans have been obsessed with the east’s spiritual depths since Alexander the Great”

Video podcastFrom the Mongols to the Huns: the nomads who dominated Eurasia

An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England

Video podcast1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know

General Andrew Jackson (on horseback) led US forces to victory over the British at the battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815 (Photo by Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images)

Regency Britain: An age of war and revolution

Our illustration shows a woman struggling through wind and snow in 1816 (Illustration by Zara Picken)

1816: the year without summer

Jane Austen, c1790

Becoming Jane Austen

A Regency parson officiates at a wedding ceremony in a country church, 1820

How to survive a Regency marriage

A Regency gentleman greets a row of ladies

Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England

Regency quiz - week 2

QuizRegency culture

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

'Madness' and the supernatural