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Reporting from war zones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell

From bes to Bitcoin: alternative currencies in the ancient Roman world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Poldark’s Cornwall: the history behind the hit series

The Aberfan disaster and women who made history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Socialite, spy, saviour: Grace Dalrymple Elliott. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did women revolt in Europe?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Holocaust landscapes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What are the historical origins of darts?

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

The 1920s: Roaring or tame?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The running revolutionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Cold War and the history of philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Forgotten science: 7 of the strangest scientific theories in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AHow old is the pencil?

The history of... re-enacting battles

The history of the suntan

9 haunted historic houses

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1966: when the swing turned sour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Somme soldiers’ stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s Second World War and the Country House. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Radium Girls and the cotton revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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