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An illustration of pilgrims on horseback.

The A to B of medieval travel: 8 tips for travelling in the Middle Ages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Resistance in the Second World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

First World War

Why poppies are worn, plus 4 more things you need to know about Armistice Day

Vintage photograph of a gentleman from the Victorian era c1880 with a bushy moustache.

General History

A hairy history of the moustache

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Life hacks from history Learn to relax . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Meux & Co. brewery on Tottenham Court Road in c1830

The London Beer Flood of 1814: what happened in the deadly tragedy?

Toy Story, starring cowboy Woody

10 milestones in Disney’s 100-year history

A women with a shocked face next to a calendar with the date of Friday the 13th

Q&A Why is Friday 13th unlucky?

A 1793 etching by Thomas Rowlandson shows a person in bed with bugs covering their bare behind.

General History

Roasted cats and acid: 5 ways our ancestors tried to get rid of bedbugs

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a “vivid running commentary” on a century of British life

A coloured engraving of Richard Whittington, wearing red robes and hat

How the real Dick Whittington lives up to his pantomime

Image of an atrium from ancient Rome. There are people milling around and a fountain.

What were houses like in ancient Rome?

A graphic of a detective looking through a magnifying glass at an old fountain pen with a skull on the nib.

The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain

Miniature of Ecgfrith, king of the English, along with his bishop Trumwine, visiting Cuthbert at Lindisfarne

How the Kingdom of Northumbria changed Anglo-Saxon England

c1880, the Paris rugby team.

When Vichy France banned rugby