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A brief history of the toilet: wiping, washing – plus, who invented the flush?

Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastMedieval keep fit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: how Gurdip Singh Chaggar's murder in 1976 sparked a youth movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Anxieties of the Edwardian age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Are older leaders better? Here’s what history tells us

Video podcastTudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The woman who saved the children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Your guide to the 1776 American Declaration of Independence

Climbing monks, wrestling kings and marching nuns: what people in the Middle Ages did to exercise. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval keep fit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General ancient history

The Phrygian cap: how did an item of ancient headgear become a symbol of liberty?

General History

Q&AWhere does the term ‘fifth column’ come from?

Victorian scandals: sex, sadism & sugared death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kublai Khan: the Mongol ruler who conquered China

Exile and exploitation: 5 things you probably didn't know about Roman Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Video podcastThe real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My life in historyHistoric gardener. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners

Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastBeastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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.

The assassination attempt on King Charles III that almost worked

Emily Davison: the suffragette who stepped in front of the king's horse

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