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Aviation
- What’s it like on the edge of space? The life of a Concorde pilot
- Flying a De Havilland 4 in World War I
- Alcock and Brown: First to fly the Atlantic non-stop
- The showgirl and the Schneider trophy
- The captured RAF Chaplain-in-Chief’s cross
- A view from the RAF front line during the Cold War
- Aviation landmarks of Norfolk and Suffolk
- The end of an era for Laker Airways
- The Spitfire: R.J. Mitchell’s radical design development
- The nose art of the Lancaster bomber
- Concorde chronology
- The R34 airship
- Trials and errors: Experimental test flying in the 1970s
- The exciting history of aviation: Manchester or Bust
- Concorde: An icon in the news
- The RAF and Imperial War Museums
- The first flight of the Gloster Meteor
- Amelia Earhart and Neta Snook: Pioneering aviators
- Flying for the RAF: Bizarre incidents
- Zeppelin Hindenburg, transatlantic workhorse
- Concorde: Flying hotel to pocket rocket
- The maiden flight of Zeppelin Hindenburg
- The enduring appeal of hot air balloons
- Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown & the gateway to supersonic flight
- Gatwick Airport: The first fifty years
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Biography and memoir
- Memoir: a personal experience
- 10 things you should know about Robert Burns
- Travelling the world in a double-decker bus
- Who was Abraham Lincoln?
- From Roald Dahl to George Bernard Shaw: Sheds of famous authors
- Alan Turing’s ‘On Computable Numbers’
- The Brontës: Love, jealousy & sibling rivalry
- Re-examining the life of Anne Frank
- More change in the village: Farming in the early 20th century
- Churchill’s hidden years
- Fighting fascists: Battling Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts
- Doris Delevingne: The Mistress of Mayfair
- Mrs Guinness: The rise and fall of Diana Mitford
- Alison Plowden: Historian and biographer
- Nelson Mandela: Release and reconciliation
- The beginnings of Bond
- Tsar-crossed lovers? The truth about Nicholas II and ‘Matilda’
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Dark history
- Where does Halloween come from?
- Devon’s villainous vicars and religious rogues
- The elusive Henry Every
- 10 facts about Blackbeard
- Road frights of the paranormal kind
- Creating ghost stories
- Jersey’s 10 spookiest locations
- Phantom rider: Haunted by a hitchhiker
- Suffolk ghost tales
- The Storm Witches of Rocqueberg in the Channel Islands
- A Swansea murder with a twist in the tale
- Yorkshire’s spookiest spots
- The Pendle witches
- A short history of witch fever
- The History Press ‘Haunted’ authors on all things paranormal...
- UFOs and the Cold War
- Who put Bella in the wych elm?
- Paranormal encounters in Britain’s forests
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Discovering Ireland
- The history of Limerick
- People who made history on the Wild Atlantic Way
- Dublin 4: From the Grand Canal to the Dodder
- Waterford Harbour: Tides and tales
- A brief history of Waterford city
- 10 facts about the first Irish railway
- 10 facts about County Galway
- Ask the author: Mark B Roe discusses the Dublin Foundling Hospital
- Spike Island’s Republican Prisoners in 1921
- Banbridge: The star of County Down
- The Celtic Literary Revival in Co. Galway
- 10 facts about Merrion and Booterstown
- Did Van Morrison’s ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ come from Derrygonnelly in County Fermanagh?
- 10 historical facts about Tipperary
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Entertainment history
- Ask the author: Lyndsy Spence on Maria Callas
- Playing Gay Q&A
- How British theatre raised funds in World War I
- Solo’s run: The legacy of Han Solo
- Americans in Rome after World War II
- Early Beatles gigs expressed in posters
- Inventors and artists: The Lumière Brothers
- Unsung heroes of Bond
- 30 iconic album covers
- Why is Albert Finney special?
- Octopussy: My private revolution
- Five guitars that made rock history at Woodstock
- Alan Tomkins recalls working on Cleopatra and Dr. No
- Ask the author: Yens Wahlgren on constructed languages
- Christmas television past
- Will ‘the talkies’ ever catch on? Film criticism through history
- Orson Welles on Churchill
- At the Oscars with producer Michael Deeley
- Have A Butcher’s: Making Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- 50 years of Radio 1
- All you need is love
- Gustav Holst and ‘The Planets’
- Recording Pink Floyd’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’
- Edgar Wallace at the movies
- Bond hits and myths
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Espionage
- Honey traps
- Mata Hari: The enduring fantasy
- The forgotten codebreakers of the First World War
- Secret gold 20 fathoms deep: The quest for HMS Laurentic’s treasure
- The secret history of signals intelligence
- Espionage from neutral Holland in World War I
- Spying in Berlin during the Cold War
- The secret language of espionage
- Cold War Allied aerial espionage
- Master spy Sidney Reilly: The inspiration for James Bond
- Ask the author: Tania Szabó answers our questions about the world of espionage
- Buster Crabb: Ian Fleming’s favourite spy
- How to make money from the Enigma machine
- The Zimmermann Telegram
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Explorers
- Polar regions today and yesterday
- A Christmas like no other? Captain Robert Scott’s 1910 expedition to the Southern Ocean
- Queen Elizabeth I’s Sea Dogs
- Captain Lawrence Oates: Antarctic tragedy
- What was Captain Cook looking for when he crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
- Everest revealed
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Genealogy
- Teach Yourself Palaeography: Five top tips for reading old handwriting
- Welfare and the workhouse
- Counting the United Kingdom: The census from 1086 to now
- The value of referencing in genealogy
- A portrait of a mother: The story of Edward and Rebecca Dowler
- Researching the suffragette movement
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Great War Britain
- Chapel Street: The bravest little street of World War I
- A Gloucestershire Lad in World War I
- Woodchester Wayside Cross: Britain’s first war memorial
- Liverpool during the First World War
- How the Pershore Plum helped win the First World War
- Growing up during the First World War in Worcestershire
- The First World War and Eastern England
- The Middlesbrough Ambulance
- Bloody Easter 1916: The Liverpool Irish in Dublin and France
- Hull in The Great War
- Zeppelins on the East Coast
- In their footsteps: The impact of World War I in West Yorkshire
- The Derbyshire Yeomanry in the First World War
- How the well-organised women of Cheltenham contributed to the war effort
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Irish history
- Ask the author: Mark B Roe discusses the Dublin Foundling Hospital
- History matters in Ireland
- Lieutenant-General John Nicholson: Hero or villain?
- The solution to the ‘Two St Patricks’ theory
- Harry Clarke: Modernising a medieval art
- Anne Boleyn and the Irish connection
- Camp debate: Bloody Sunday 1972
- The Irish Diaspora and St. Patrick’s Day
- The Battle of Clonmult: The IRA’s worst defeat
- Bloody Easter 1916: The Liverpool Irish in Dublin and France
- An introduction to Brehon law
- The 1916 Easter Rising
- The Orange walks of Northern Ireland
- The Falls Curfew: Reassessing the past
- Five daring women from Irish history
- The secret court martial records of the Easter Rising
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Kings and queens
- A royal flush: Coronation gift guide
- The reign of Queen Elizabeth II: A timeline
- Ten things you may not know about Princess Mary
- Why was Edward VIII’s abdication a necessity?
- The House of York: Edmund of Langley and his children
- A haverin’ history of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Infamous royal marriages
- Charles II and Catherine of Braganza: A loveless marriage?
- Great Scot, it’s Robert the Bruce!
- A beginner’s guide to the Babington Plot
- Being a Scottish monarch is not good for your health
- King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson
- The top ten longest-reigning British monarchs
- Richard I: A mighty king or a menacing tyrant?
- The betrayal of Richard III
- Long Live the King! Coronations throughout history
- Queen Elizabeth II: A giant among British royals
- Love rats: Three of England’s lustful kings
- Mary, Queen of Scots in seven actresses
- The House of Lancaster in seven people
- Royal engagement rings through the centuries
- Duke of Clarence: A title through time
- The Eleanor Crosses: Longshanks’ love set in stone
- Richard III, the missing princes, and bones discovered in the Tower
- King Arthur in history and legend
- The moment Princess Elizabeth became queen
- Mary, Queen of Scots’ great escape
- Henry V: Cold-hearted ruler or virtuous king?
- Five little-known facts about Queen Mary I
- William the Conqueror: Crowned at Christmas
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Local history
- Historical facts you might not know about Cheshire
- The writing process of Sussex Writers in their Landscape: Self-fulfilment in the Age of the Machine
- A potted history of Worcestershire
- Durham Cathedral - a medieval document in stone
- Haunted historic houses and castles in the UK
- Re-enactment and research: How modern recreations can help us visualise the past
- Norwich in the Second World War
- How Birmingham went global
- The making of ‘Artisan Stroud’
- Top 10 stone circles in the Lake District National Park
- A Tyneside Heritage: business, employment and communities on Tyneside
- Wokingham: The essential English market town
- Stay Local, Shop Local
- Shameless Herefordshire
- Strange customs in the Garden of England
- The English village fête
- 20 things you never knew about Coventry
- A brief history of Cornwall’s rivers
- Aberdeen’s granite men: Hard men, hard work
- An expert guide to local history from THP’s authors
- Bristol’s other slave trades
- Yorkshire versus Henry VIII
- 10 little known facts about Cumbria
- Royals in Essex
- Voices of Sunderland’s industrial past
- The Black Country alphabet
- A brief history of Luton
- Abel Heywood: From hothead radical to Manchester city father
- 10 things I love about Lincolnshire
- Bennachie’s casualties of war
- Vintage visions above the high street
- A brief history of milk stout
- ‘A Gallery of Sculpture’: Bath Abbey, Bath’s forgotten Georgian tourist attraction
- Hawkhurst: The story of smuggling in the 18th Century
- 10 Hampshire pioneers who changed the world
- A brief history of Somerset
- Norfolk’s rich history
- Workhouse buildings – whatever happened to them all?
- Hiding out on the margins: Was Robin Hood a hero from Sheffield?
- Bristol’s 10 historical places
- Are statues for the birds?
- Falmouth
- Of priests and parishioners: Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield
- The rich history of Somerset
- Just how different was Norfolk?
- Cotswold Arts and Crafts architecture
- Leith: The creative heart of Edinburgh
- Norfolk in the spotlight: Theatres, fairgrounds, and family fun
- Tracing history through the names of pubs and inns
- The Prison of Norman Cross: The Lost Town of Huntingdonshire
- Women of the Durham Coalfields
- Merseyside in the 1960s
- Top five Bristol mysteries
- Recollections of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel
- 10 Cambridgeshire crimes
- A history of Oxfordshire
- By royal appointment: Herefordshire’s regal connections
- 10 cultural milestones from Cardiff’s past
- Sussex poetry: A country saved...a country lost
- What makes Wales great
- Talking Tyke: 10 Yorkshire dialect words
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London history
- Ten famous East Enders
- 10 fabulous facts about London’s Record Shops
- Fitzrovia: The other side of Oxford Street
- Ask the author: Phil Stride on London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel
- A brief history of Notting Hill
- Quiz: London’s royal history
- The London Beer Flood
- 1666: The Great Fire of London
- Vintage London: 1910 to 1960
- Growing up in London’s East End
- London in the Second World War
- The secret history of London’s oldest house
- Tube Life: Archival images from London's Underground
- London: Vanishing ads and fading innocence
- Walthamstow: Beating the bounds
- The recasting of Big Ben
- Stoke Newington: The dissenting history of a London parish
- The last Thames frost fair
- A curious history of London
- Is the future of Harrods safe?
- London in literature
- London police opening fire: 1983 to now
- The unique joys of Speakers’ Corner
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Maritime
- Canals of the British Isles: A history
- The call of the water: Life on Britain’s rivers and canals
- MS Pilsudski: The largest shipwreck off the Yorkshire coast
- The craziest things overheard on a cruise ship
- Seven things you (probably) didn’t know about Portsmouth Dockyard
- Wonders of the UK’s waterways
- Salsette: 100 years under the sea
- Top tips for narrowboat life
- The brief but glorious career of SS Normandie
- The Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916
- The romance of the high seas
- Q&A with Simon Mills, owner of the HMHS Britannic wreck
- Leviathans’ revenge: Whales that attacked ships
- A short history of Sheerness Dockyard
- Terrible true tales of life at sea
- 10 facts about Blackbeard
- Diving the wreck of Carpathia
- The sinking and raising of the Mary Rose
- The progression of transatlantic liners through history
- The Falkirk Wheel: Building a waterway wonder
- RMS Mauretania: Cunard’s most luxurious ocean liner
- The sinking of the RMS Lusitania
- Day-trip to disaster: the Zeebrugge tragedy
- Sea devils: Pioneer submariners
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Medieval
- Solving the mystery of the Princes in the Tower
- Breakspear: More cannons than canon
- The Battle of Tewkesbury 1471
- Medieval tales from many lands
- The Battle of Tettenhall: Aethelflaed’s greatest victory
- Braveheart: The immortality of William Wallace
- England’s first great naval victory
- The Clifford’s Tower massacre
- Eleanor of Aquitaine’s greatest gamble
- On the trail of Magna Carta
- Battle of Hastings history timeline
- Aethelflaed in nine places
- The Battle of Verneuil: A second Agincourt
- Eleanor Talbot: The Secret Queen
- Why is Magna Carta still celebrated?
- Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians timeline
- Llywelyn the Last
- Siege warfare in the Middle Ages
- Richard II and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
- St Davids Cathedral’s famous faces
- Ask the author: Gemma Hollman on Royal Witches
- Three things you might not know about Owain Glyndŵr
- Robert the Bruce: Earl, outlaw, king
- Joan, Lady of Wales
- The death of Henry III
- Fact vs fiction: The Battle of Lincoln explored
- The Black Death: Human history’s biggest catastrophe?
- Family loyalty and deceit within the clan of Dracula
- Where did the Black Prince get his name from?
- The Woodvilles: Were they as bad as history states?
- The Bayeux Tapestry in numbers
- Winchelsea at war
- Alfred the Great: King of the Anglo-Saxons
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Military
- Borodino Field: 1812 & 1941
- Helmet history: Impractical German headdress
- From socks to scout cars: How to supply the army at war
- The poppy as a symbol of remembrance
- How Russian was the revolution of 1917?
- The Siege of Mafeking: A timeline of events
- An A-Z of the Falklands War
- King Shaka’s Zulu
- Five great battles from history
- Operation Unthinkable – Churchill’s plans to invade the Soviet Union
- Family loyalty and deceit within the clan of Dracula
- Special Force: Legacy of the Chindits
- 10 things you didn’t know about the Zulu Army
- Animals at war: The PDSA Dickin Medal
- The fall of Tenochtitlan
- Camp debate: Bloody Sunday 1972
- The Battle of Goose Green
- Gibraltar: Conquered by no enemy
- The Battle of Culloden 1746
- Britain’s last invasion: Fishguard 1797
- Hastings 1066: The Battle
- The man who saved the ninja
- Embed: With the world’s armies in Afghanistan
- Interpreting the Battle of Bosworth Field
- The ninja or samurai myth
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Modern history
- Ten things you might not know about the Apollo Missions
- Radio Caroline: Teenage music memories
- The Festival of Britain 1951
- The Falklands War: A chronology of events
- The golden days of Kennedy’s special relationship with Britain
- 1966: When Britain was the envy of the world
- Mandela: From prison cell to president
- The reality of working for the Prime Minister
- The Vietnam War: Tet Offensive
- Martin Luther King Jr’s dream 60 years on
- Four key events in Britain’s nuclear weapons history
- The Windsor Castle fire: 25 facts
- THP’s Desert Island Discs
- Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Relativity proven after 100 years
- Reminiscences of the Queen’s Coronation
- Escaping from Hungary’s Iron Curtain
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Motoring
- VanLifers: Beautiful conversions for life on the road
- Blitz Motorcycles: In pictures
- The listening stick: The car mechanic’s best friend
- It’s an Akroyd not a Diesel!
- Cars we loved in the 1950s
- From discomfort to joy: Dunlop’s pneumatic bicycle tyre
- The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce’s quest for more horsepower
- Top speed – true or false? Testing carmakers’ claims
- Road testing the Mercedes 300B and the 250
- How the motor industry helped win the Second World War
- The story behind Giles Chapman’s Britain’s Toy Car Wars
- Cars We Loved... with Giles Chapman
- Seventy years of the British Grand Prix
- 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of the static caravan
- Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling: Celebrated aeronautical and motorcycle engineer
- Eight things you might not know about the black cab
- The British Army’s vehicles: From tanks to transporters
- Cars we loved in the 1960s
- The Reliant Robin and nine other great British three-wheelers
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Natural history
- The meaning of ‘spice’
- Wild times in a London park
- Life on the edge of land and sea in Norfolk
- Freshwater follies and fantasies
- A beginners guide to tracking
- Penguins and polar bears: The wildlife at Earth’s poles
- Bringing forests to life through the power of stories
- Ask the author: Arthur Parkinson on spring gardening
- Birds of a feather: The female founders of the RSPB
- The joys of burning wood the modern way
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Social and cultural history
- Postcards and Pitman: A fascinating glimpse into a forgotten world
- The cobbled street: Memories of a child
- The NHS: Serving the nation for 70 years
- A pig called Alice
- From martyrdom to capitalism: A timeline of Valentine’s Day
- The history of Scotland in seven people
- A short history of the Post Office
- A history of British pub names
- How an escaped slave became the most photographed American of the 19th century
- The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833
- The history of street photography
- Six strange objects from the history of medicine
- Ask the author: Emma White on dogs throughout British history
- Changes to medical practice from 1914 - 1918
- Immigration to the USA by White Star liner
- Magna Carta: Justice for all?
- The swinging sixties
- Lost Countries: A treasure trove of history from an old stamp album
- The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918
- Antisemitism
- Windrush: A landmark in the history of modern Britain
- Britain’s lost tragedies uncovered (and remembered)
- Indonesia and the coconut
- Five Abolitionists you should know
- The media vs the mighty in seven quotes
- Peace symbols through history
- 10 things you didn’t know about Britain’s black community during the World Wars
- 10 street photography tips
- Slavery in history
- The price of a bouquet: Vincent Van Gogh and the art market
- The Duke of Somerset, Scotland and Brexit
- 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Burma
- Celebrating 80 years of the Speaking Clock
- Elizabeth Fry: Saint of prison reform
- Graffiti of the East End
- Bringing up baby in the 1950s
- Transportation to Australia
- 500 years of the Royal College of Physicians
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Storytelling
- A Fire Tail
- Stories about the starry night sky
- A shape-shifting, cart-wheeling, badger teapot tale from Japan
- A love letter to February
- The writing process for ‘Myths of Gods and Goddesses in Britain and Ireland’
- Medieval monsters
- Scottish storytelling tradition: The Devil and the Minister
- Health warning: singing and dancing can be dangerous
- Exploring Gloucestershire in search of stories
- Animal folk tales of Britain and Ireland
- Piskeys, Night-riders and Jack ‘o’ Lanterns: Fairies in Cornish folklore
- Finding the folk tales
- How the Birds helped the Hedgehog
- Connecting story, science and self for a sustainable future this Earth Day
- Essex landscapes and ghost tales
- Here be dragons
- Storytelling: Painting the tales
- What I love about performance storytelling
- 10 things you might not know about storytelling
- Why the story you tell is important
- Storypower: The gift of storytelling
- Capturing native animal folk tales of the British Isles
- Q&A with Kevin Walker for National Storytelling Week and LGBT+ History Month
- Danish Folk Tales: Why Danmark is called Danmark?
- Crankies in Wales: The man who brought moving panoramas to the Welsh Valleys
- Making ‘The Mighty Goddess’
- Telling the bees: Ancient bee customs now have royal approval
- Magical stories about Patupaiarehe and Tylwyth Teg
- The Spirit of Tinto Hill – A story from Lanarkshire
- Folk tales of rock and stone
- Ask the author: Kevin Walker on Queer Folk Tales
- ‘Wherever we go we take our stories with us’: Jewish folk tales of Britain and Ireland
- Collecting Scotland’s folk tales
- What lies beneath...
- Flower fairies – fey or fearsome?
- ‘We’re still here’: Lost voices from Wales to America
- Michael Rosen on the power of storytelling
- The art of historical storytelling
- The Ballad of Eliza Woodcock
- The challenges of adapting a folk tale
- The art of visual storytelling
- Folk tales: Do they need updating?
- The Storyteller: A poem about the art and practise of storytelling
- The folklore of the Isle of Man
- Growing up with stories
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The Stuarts
- The English Civil War and the rise of journalism
- James I: England’s first Stuart monarch
- No reconciliation, no address: King Charles I in exile
- How historically accurate is Outlander?
- The later diaries of Samuel Pepys
- Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
- House histories: Paramour Grange
- A conflict beyond peacemakers: James I and the Thirty Years’ War
- Colonel Blood and the Crown Jewels
- Sir Walter Raleigh: The last act
- Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists
- James II: Will the real King of England please stand up?
- Happy and Glorious, the Revolution of 1688
- Why was Isaac Newton such a giant?
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The Tudors
- The forgotten Boleyn
- Portrait of a queen: Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour
- Henry VII in seven facts
- Do we know the real Henry VIII?
- Henry VIII: Avaricious, suspicious, inconstant
- The royal bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York
- Catherine Parr: Henry VIII’s last love
- Catherine of Aragon’s arrival in England
- Why is Shakespeare’s real life (and his death) so undebatable?
- Thomas Cromwell and the ‘ungoodly’ executioner
- It Could Be Ye: England’s first lottery
- A guide to historic Tudor sites
- Evil May Day: When Tudor London rioted against foreigners
- Five little-known facts about Queen Mary I
- Queen Elizabeth I: A brief history
- Lady Jane Grey in six places
- Attitudes towards women in the Tudor period
- When Henry VIII met the Holy Maid of Kent
- Five things you may not know about Lady Katherine Grey
- Six things you (probably) didn’t know about Edward VI
- What if the Princes in the Tower survived into Tudor England?
- The final days of Henry VIII
- Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
- The diabolical death of Henry, Lord Darnley
- 12 little-known facts about Catherine of Aragon
- The execution of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset
- Katherine Howard: Vixen or victim?
- Margaret Douglas: The other Tudor princess
- Teenagers in Tudor times
- Memento mori: Reminding the Tudors of their mortality
- Margaret Tudor: English princess, Scottish queen
- Mary I: Tyrant or trailblazer?
- Ask the author: Conor Byrne on Katherine Howard
- Thomas Cromwell and the fall of Anne Boleyn
- Dogs in Shakespeare
- Thomas Cromwell and the ‘Catholic faith’
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True crime
- Hawkhurst: The story of smuggling in the 18th Century
- The Great Train Robbery ‘cold case’ review
- Ask the author: Jeremy Craddock on The Jigsaw Murders
- The Sweeney & the Dirty Squads: Police corruption and sleaze 70’s style
- The Manchester Martyrs of 1867
- Re-examining the case of ‘Jack the Stripper’
- How did Fleet Street’s crime journalists get their scoops?
- Medical detectives: pioneering forensic pathologists
- Escape from Broadmoor
- The lost girls of Liverpool
- Sex & Drugs and Rock & Roll: The music behind ‘The Microdot Gang’
- Valerie’s story: The woman who survived the A6 Murder
- Inside the Cromwell Street murder investigation
- Wartime London: A criminal’s paradise?
- The notorious case of Dr Crippen
- The ‘Acid Bath’ murders
- Ask the author: Monica Weller on investigating a 50-year-old cold case
- The Kalahari Killings
- Fitted up: The Mitcham Co-op murder
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Victorian and Edwardian
- Seven little-known facts about Queen Victoria
- Non-militant suffragettes and their peaceful march for votes
- Women and domestic service in Victorian society
- Eight little-known facts about Florence Nightingale
- The first Victoria Cross hero
- Colonial disasters you (probably) haven’t heard of
- The Victorian Society: Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian architecture
- When Victoria met Sarah
- How a story of Ethiopian plunder started in a Scottish cupboard
- End of an era: The death of Queen Victoria
- India from Queen Victoria’s time to independence
- Buffalo Bill’s British Wild West
- The launch of SS Great Britain
- 33 years in the making: Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Five facts about London’s Victorian slums
- Thomas Cook’s first tours to the continent
- Poorhouse peculiarities in Bedford
- Jack the Ripper and the tabloid press
- Jacob Isenschmid: Jack the Ripper suspect
- London’s Victorian murderesses
- 11 little-known things about Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- The Monte Carlo Casino: From empty tables to a magnet for millionaires
- The Brontës: Love, jealousy & sibling rivalry
- Brunel: The second greatest Brit of all time?
- The Brown Dog affair
- Why was Charles Darwin a giant of science?
- Timeline of the 1842 retreat from Kabul
- Lieutenant-General John Nicholson: Hero or villain?
- Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: The computer’s most passionate partnership
- Wealth, poverty, and childbirth in Victorian Britain
- Dadabhai Naoroji: The UK’s first Indian MP
- Five things that may change your mind about Queen Victoria
- Victorian King’s Cross and the Maiden Lane GNR terminus
- The Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Communicating across the sea
- The forgotten men of the London Underground
- Chloroform: 170 years of controversy
- The Victorian dinner inside a dinosaur
- Hard times in prison in the 1880s
- The victims of Jack the Ripper
- The year of the Ripper
- Birds of a feather: The female founders of the RSPB
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Women and war
- Remarkable Women of the Second World War
- A first act of remembrance: The Red Cross Pearls
- A nursing sister on the Western Front
- The role of women in the First World War
- Edith Cavell and her furry four-legged friends
- What was a typical day like for First World War field nurses?
- Nursing during the last days of the Somme
- The 100th anniversary of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
- Mildred: American WWI front-line witness
- 10 things you didn’t know about Edith Cavell, nurses & Mary Lindell
- The history of the Auxiliary Territorial Service
- World War One: Fashion Revolution
- Black women of World War One
- Women of the Home Front in pictures
- The heroine of Operation Basalt
- Knitting for Tommy
- Princesses on the wards: Royal women and nursing
- Stella Rutter: Spitfire draughtswoman and D-Day secret keeper
- Writing Love and War in the WRNS
- Women’s war work and 1918’s Representation of the People Act
- ‘Doing their bit’: The female fighter pilots of World War II
- Kate Luard and the Third Battle of Ypres
- Essex Land Girls
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Women’s history
- Meeting the mothers: The women who shaped iconic female authors
- My Disappearing Uncle: A scattered family history
- The life of Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
- Greenham Common Peace Camp in pictures
- A brief history of women in power
- THP’s favourite women in history
- The Ford sewing machinists equal pay strike of 1968
- Seven things you (probably) didn’t know about Anne Brontë
- Ask the author: Lyndsy Spence on society women
- Mary Shelley’s monster: Women writers and the work that has overshadowed them
- Literary legends: Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters
- Was astronomer Caroline Herschel’s success down to extreme politeness?
- Pocahontas: The English connection
- 11 little-known things about Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Emily Hobhouse: Pacifist and patriot
- 18 inspirational women who have changed history
- Ask the Author: Caitlin Davies on Queens of the Underworld - a history of female crooks
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