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Praying for Britain: the history of national days of prayer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coronavirus: a historical perspective. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The invention of loneliness: why being 'unhappy alone' is a surprisingly modern idea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The dangers of the Blitz spirit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A brief history of royal mothers and childbirth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mum hacks: 5 tips for new mothers from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A nurse, a banker and… a TV producer? The royals through history who have held other jobs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wales’s turbulent 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Behind the scenes on Belgravia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A short history of quarantine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Resistance in the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anti-suffrage: the women who didn't want the vote. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

10 facts you (probably) didn't know about the First World War

The Queen and the Commonwealth: a force for international change?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When women flew Spitfires. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Written in stone. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Mirror & The Light book review: Hilary Mantel's epic finale "lives up to the hype". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward IV: champion of the Wars of the Roses

The (not so) stinky Middle Ages: why medieval people were cleaner than we think

General History

A brief history of human filth: how did people try to keep clean in the past?

How the ‘Roaring Twenties’ myth obscures the making of modern Britain

London’s trailblazing women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Modern galleryIn pictures: the history of London’s Heathrow Airport

Secrets of Lindisfarne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 smells that made Georgian England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Jacobite rebellions: how close were they to returning the Stuarts to power?

Nancy Astor facts: who was the first female MP in British history to take her seat in parliament?

Simon Jenkins: "Wales needs to get over England and be Wales again". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The rise of the cat burglar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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