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How a ballerina survived the Gulag. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How did pasta come to Europe and when did it first become established in Italy?

Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How dogs shaped city life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“A spotlight on historic societal misogyny and disbelief of women”: what The Last Duel gets right and wrong

Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

Asia’s anti-imperial revolutionaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family history of France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

Apartheid: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why are Marco Polo's travels so famous?

Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel

Sex in the Middle Ages: have attitudes really changed?

Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 19th-century slums of New York

Unexpected Edwardians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The reign of Roman disease: why did disease hit a flourishing empire?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Roman women

Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The medieval women who spoke out against sexual violence

Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

Q&AWhen were passports as we know them today first introduced?

QuizHow Much Do You Know About Ancient Greece?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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