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The dark side of Samuel Pepys

The dark side of Samuel Pepys

Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement

Preview: Should historians be celebrities?

Queer life in Georgian Britain

Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe

Robert Peel: life of the week

The German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and blood

Art Deco: everything you wanted to know

America in Korea: a failed occupation?

The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies

Andrew Carnegie: life of the week

Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles

Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know

Haiti's first and only king

How the Cold War made the modern world

Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week

How women were erased from economic history

The Phoenicians: everything you wanted to know

Black women and the fight for human rights

El Cid: life of the week

How did the Vikings shape Russia and Ukraine?

William the Conqueror: life of the week

How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world

The spy next door: Moscow's century-long plot to infiltrate the west

Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter

Nationalism: everything you wanted to know

Preview: The forgers who faked a fortune

From dodos to 'lost' tribes: a history of extinction

Europe's last pagans

VJ Day and the story of women's football: history behind the headlines

The tangled legacies of two Americas

The Paris Commune: everything you wanted to know

VJ Day: why don't we talk about WW2 in Asia?

Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy

Mary of Modena: life of the week

Frontier life: everything you wanted to know

Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World

Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?

JMW Turner: life of the week

Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb

WW2 evacuees: everything you wanted to know

Queen Victoria's secret love affair

The 300-year battle over free speech

Erik the Red: life of the week

Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age

Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome

Iron Mountain: the conspiracy that duped America

Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines

Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths

Beer history: everything you wanted to know