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Sex and love

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Marvellous medieval medicine: why their curious cures were better than you think. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Queen Victoria and John Brown have a SECRET child?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 7Tudor love and sex: inside the 16th-century bedroom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor

What did the Tudors think was ‘good’ sex? These tips and tricks were key to relationships in the 16th century

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

To the left, there is a black and white image of Queen Victoria. She is dressed in dark clothing and has her hair partially pulled back by a black fastening. Facing her, on the right is an image of John Brown, a bearded man wearing military uniform and a hat. Over them, there is a pink treatment with a rip in it

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How I uncovered Victoria's secret love: Historian Fern Riddell explains all. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Paint your own pot, like an ancient Etruscan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two green hearts are sideways, facing each other. In each there is an image: one has a painting of Elizabeth I and the other has a painting of the Duke of Anjou

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The Virgin Queen? Elizabeth I's forbidden love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

Are Bertha and George Russell real? Inside the real Vanderbilt divorces that rocked the Gilded Age

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A timeless love story? Abélard and Héloïse’s passionate affair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sex lives of the Anglo-Saxons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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20th Century

“Risks he should never have taken”: a historian’s take on JFK’s sexual waywardness

Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony: how the last pharaoh's love affairs shaped Ancient Egypt's fate

St. Angela Merici explaining rules to eight sisters at founding of Ursuline Order, 17th century.

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Why sex was a sin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett for Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice' (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Honeymooning with your mother-in-law? The truths of Regency romance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Georgian

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse?

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Georgian

The real reason Jane Austen never married

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Medieval

Who was St Dwynwen?The legend of the Welsh patron saint of lovers

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Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods, seen in a 16th-century fresco by Pietro Bonaccorsi at Villa del Principe in Genoa, Italy

Ancient Greece

Zeus's children: who were the offspring of the god with a libido that couldn’t be contained

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Victorian family life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How to celebrate a Victorian wedding. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How Georgian and Victorian same-sex couples co-opted marital traditions and made them their own. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

QuizHow much do you know about the history of sex?

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Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Roman

The boy that emperor Nero made his ‘wife’: what the tragedy of the castrated Sporus tells us about homosexuality in ancient Rome

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Edwardian

King Edward VII’s love chairHow did Dirty Bertie’s siège d’amour actually work?

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Jason Okundaye on the Black gay community and its tensions: “The movement has always been a broad church”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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