Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

This red-figure pottery depicts a story involving Helen of Troy. Greek tragedies posed their audiences an awkward question: what would you do if you were in a similar situation? Meanwhile, comedy gave satirists a channel through which to cut Athens' political heavies down to size. (DEA/G.NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Ancient Greek theatre and the Athenian identity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

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The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A modern illustration shows prisoners of war being sold into slavery

Ancient Greece

Slavery in ancient Greece: what was life like for enslaved people?

An ancient Greek vase depicting sexual intercourse

Ancient Greece

A brief history of sex and sexuality in Ancient Greece

An ancient Greek vase depicts animal sacrifice of a cow by two women

Ancient Greece

Your guide to Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know

Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, the top above water

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Britain’s nuclear deterrent: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of a man on a penny-farthing

Victorian

Q&AHow dangerous was the penny-farthing?

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

US secretary of state William Seward (seated left) signs the agreement to buy Alaska from Russia in 1867

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America’s hidden empire: the USA's forgotten imperial expansion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing the traders who made a fortune during the wake of the Black Death

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Merchants of doom: the traders who profited from the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From Meiji to modernity: how Japan reinvented itself through the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers lower the bodywork of a Standard Vanguard car onto its chassis in a factory

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Britain’s motor city: how Coventry's car industry roared to greatness – then went into reverse. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German troops on horseback cross a bridge during the Poland campaign

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The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration depicting the migration of people across the world

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Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

20th Century

Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

William Wallace on trial in 1305

Medieval

William Wallace: who was the Scottish rebel who defied Edward I?

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'The Journey of the Magi' by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Piero the Gouty for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It features his son Lorenzo, who would become known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, as one of the three kings

Renaissance

“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance

Benin Bronzes at the British Museum In London

Medieval

What are the Benin Bronzes and why are they important? Explore the significance of the controversial treasures

Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

Victorian

The legend of Thomas Crapper, the man who didn't invent the toilet

A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brazilian peacekeepers under UN command in Haiti during general election 2006

20th Century

When should countries intervene in others’ affairs?

Illustration representing various empires across history

General ancient history

Have empires ever been a force for good?

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

Medieval

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

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Robespierre’s brutal downfall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How should we teach the slave trade?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Building utopia after WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portraits, power and royal wigs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Meeting in Tenochtitlan between Hernan Cortes

Tudor

Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs

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