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Agriculture

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Animals

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Art history

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Black history

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Crime and punishment

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Culture

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Food and drink

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Historical films

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History in the home

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Industrial revolution

Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

People march with a large rainbow flag in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Image by Photolibrary / Getty Images Plus)

LGBTQ+ history

Illustration of a Medieval Scribe

Literature

A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

Maritime history

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Medicine and health

The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

Ancient Griffin-lion relief

Myths and legends

Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

Nazi Germany

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

Politics

Lucy Worsley

Popular historians

The Last Supper

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Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

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Sex and love

Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Painting of Daniel Mendoza

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Boys watching TV in the 1950s

TV and radio

Illustration of strange creatures

Weird and wonderful history

Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

Women's history

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A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

American war of Independence

French revolution

Russian civil war, 1919

Russia-Ukraine

Civil war

Soldiers in the Crimean War

The Crimean War

Social History

The history of Africa: why we need to look much deeper than slavery and colonisation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"I felt very alone in a world gone horribly mad": the experiences of evacuees in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 20th-century painting shows John applying his seal to the 1215 charter

Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1300 depiction of a man paying taxes

Do you know the correct date of Magna Carta? Here’s why you might be wrong

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Kings and Queens

A 17th-century painting of Maria Theresa of Austria, by Pierre Mignard (Photo by Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

The incredible Habsburg empress you’ve never heard of: who was Maria Theresa?

“The reverberations lasted for generations” | Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry on the civil war of Charlemagne's grandsons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of King George V's funeral

The death of King George V – and why his doctor hastened his demise

A portrait of Mary I, queen of England

Mary I: your guide to the life and rule of Henry VII's daughter – plus a timeline and 7 little-known facts

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Women's History

Queen Catherine the Great and (inset) a horse

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse?

Portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman.

The real reason Jane Austen never married

My history heroMary Archer chooses Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lilian Lenton, collage by Rachel Dickens

Lilian Lenton, the 'Elusive Pimpernel': the courageous and daring suffragette who took direct action. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weird and wonderful

Illustration of the wolves of Gevaudan in France.

From the headless 'Blemmae' to a flesh-eating wolf: a 500-year history of monsters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fingers, frogs and fairies: the fashion for fortune telling in the 15th and 16th centuries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Japanese woodblock print, c1855, depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu, and the god Takemikazuchi subduing it with the kaname-ishi stone (Photo by Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

General History

Why is a mythical catfish to blame for earthquakes in Japan?

Ancient Egyptian pyramids against a purple starry sky

ConspiracyWere the pyramids built by aliens?

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TV and Radio

Four women posing

History TV and radio in the UK: what's on our screens this week?

Several men stand around a table in a submarine

Whiskey on the Rocks: the real story behind Soviet submarine S-363’s Cold War grounding

A man stands on a platform in front of a crowd

Second World War

Why Schindler’s List remains relevant decades on

What is the greatest historical movie of all time?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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