Dockers unloading wine barrels

Social history

An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

Lady swindlers: 6 women who turned to lives of crime and became queens of the underworld.

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Many are turning against prejudice. But we cannot be complacent".

Victorian education and school | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture.

Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools.

The Shaftesbury Welcome Ragged School in Battersea , 1899. Classes of 40 were not rare, and they could stretch to 80 during staff shortages. (Photo by Mary Evans)

Class warfare: a day in the life of a Victorian schoolchild.

The golden age of the country house.

Video podcastMedieval make do and mend.

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century.

Manchester dog show, c1909

The surprising history of Victorian dog shows.

Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time.

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

First World War

Armistice Day: what does it commemorate? Why are poppies worn? Plus 4 more things you need to know

Week one quiz: Victorian life.

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Victorian life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture.

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain.

Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that "slum-dwellers were not all very dirty - or, at least, they didn't choose to be". (Photo by Getty Images)

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were 'happy'.

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?

General History

QuizMatch these famous moustaches with the historical figures

My history heroSteve Hackett chooses Thomas Paine.

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?.

Video podcastRoman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire.

Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age.

“Impaled on a stake and left to die”: crime, punishment and law enforcement in ancient Egypt.

A collage showing historical babies. Edward VI as a baby, Edward VIII as a baby, and a depiction of the baby Jesus.

Historical baby names: a guide to baby name trends from the Anglo-Saxons to today

Video podcastThe Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know.

Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street.

Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world.

Video podcastTea history: everything you wanted to know.

Victorian women detectives.

A hidden history of black civil rights