Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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How people power fuelled England's century of chaos. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woodcut from Frances Rose-Troup’s book about the Prayer Book Rebellion, in which some 4,000 people from Devon and Cornwall died (Photo by Collection PJ / Alamy Stock Photo)

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The Prayer Book Rebellion: Mark Stoyle on how the 1549 rising almost changed Tudor history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A clown, c1970s. The next decade, there would be a panic over "stalker clowns" in the US (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

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Clowns, agoraphobia and kayaks: a history of fear and loathing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wife of Bath

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The Wife of Bath: how Chaucer's character gives a voice to medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1577 portrait of Arbella Stuart, great- great-granddaughter of Henry VII, as a toddler clutching a doll

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What were the games and pastimes enjoyed by Tudor children?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Genghis Khan’s tent, as shown in a 14th-century Persian miniature. The Mongols’ conquests transformed the way the people of Eurasia did trade, shared knowledge, paid taxes and fought wars (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Medieval

What was life like under the Mongol empire?

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family walks through San Francisco’s Chinatown district in 1904. Chinese culture endured in the US in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Photo by Arnold Genthe/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

General Modern

The Chinese Exclusion Act: your guide to the 19th-century US anti-immigration laws

Christopher Clark at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Photo by Damien McFadden)

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Christopher Clark“The 1848 revolutions were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Inside debtors’ prisons: what life was like for people jailed in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man in Victorian dress holding a cane jumps on a beach

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Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A goat pokes its head over the fence at a city farm near Greenland Dock, London, which is still home to the Surrey Docks Farm

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Urban animals: the growth of city farms in 20th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The clocks change at South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

20th Century

A brief history of daylight saving time

General Modern

Women's history podcast episodes

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Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white photo of a group of women marching while holding a sign saying 'International Women's Day'

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A brief history of International Women's Day: what is it and why do we celebrate it?

Pupils in a museum

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QuizHow well do you know Year 9 history?

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A witch feeds her familiars in this illustration from the 1579 pamphlet about Windsor woman Elizabeth Stile (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Forgotten TudorsWhat the lives of ordinary people tell us about Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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OpinionWhy the Edwardian era remains relevant today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lawn tennis was a popular activity amongst the upper classes in the Edwardian period.

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Daily life in the Edwardian era: from hobbies to gadgets

An early 20th century postcard showing young girls dressed in their Sunday best at a temperance rally.

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A brief history of the temperance movement in Britain and Ireland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing the Edwardians

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The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

Diners watch a waitress chalk up the dishes offered on the day's menu at a British Restaurant in Gillingham, 1941. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/ Popperfoto via Getty Images)

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Eat for victory: the British Restaurants of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1450 farmworkers planting seeds and harrowing a ploughed field.

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Medieval wellness: how our New Year’s resolutions mirror the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Veggie Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

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Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

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The Great Unrest: what caused the industrial action of 1911–14?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

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Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today's industrial action

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