Social history

Video Seaside WL

5 things to expect at the Victorian seaside

Painting depicting the Spanish Armada

Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada

Video March on Washington WL

What was the March on Washington?

Martin Luther King speaks in front of microphones, during the March on Washtington

“I Have A Dream”: the speech that America couldn’t ignore

Video Punch and Judy WL

General History

“That’s the way to do it”: a two-minute history of Punch and Judy

A 1948 photograph of the House of Epidius Rufus in Pompeii. The structure had to be rebuilt after being damaged by Allied bombs during WWII (Photo by SuperStock/Alamy Stock Photo)

How were Pompeii and Herculaneum discovered?

The via dell’Abbondanza while it was first being excavated (left) and how it looks a century later. The project was
one of the first major archaeological digs to be photographed in painstaking, step-by-step detail.

What can the streets of Pompeii reveal about daily life in ancient Rome?

A 19th-century depiction of the market of Pompeii

Pompeii What was life like before the eruption of Vesuvius?

A 17th-century engraving of the Mount Vesuvius eruption of AD 79, by Athanasius Kircher (Photo by Shawshots/Alamy Stock Photo)

Your ultimate guide to Pompeii, plus 8 fascinating facts about the ancient Roman city

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A statue of Alice Nutter

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup

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Pod Lucy Delap WL

Learning disabilities: an overlooked history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An early Peace People march in Belfast’s Woodvale Park

What was the Peace People movement in Northern Ireland?

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia “The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

A portrait of Chevalier d’Éon presenting as a woma

Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy