An 1862 photo of a prison hulk docked in Ireland Island, Bermuda.
Royal Navy
Convicts worked in the dockyards in Bermuda for 40 years.
Portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort by Meynart Weywyck (circa 1510).
National Portrait Gallery
Beaufort’s presence at Collyweston formed part of a strategic plan, devised by mother and son, to exert royal influence both locally and nationally.
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Mordaunt is predicted to lose her seat at the election so it’s now or never for her – but the path to victory is laden with obstacles.
The SS Hartdale is lying at a depth of 80 metres, 12 miles off the coast of Northern Ireland.
Michael Roberts/Unpath’d Waters
The SS Hartdale was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 and its final resting place had long been unknown.
Baron Cobham and family around the dinner table, 1567.
Master of the Countess of Warwick
During the Tudor period, religious beliefs shaped people’s attitudes towards food and food waste.
Thomas Holt/Shutterstock
Being unable to agree on a united national memorial shows just how disunited Wales had been.
The Cable Street Mural by Dave Binnington Savage, Paul Butler, Ray Walker and Desmond Rochfort (1979 – 1983).
Amanda Slater/Wiki Commons
This is the story of how music became a battleground in the 1980s and 1990s, as antifascists fought fascism with guitars and microphones.
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Ramsay MacDonald was Labour’s first ever PM but he ended up being booted out of the party he helped found.
‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright pictured at the time of his court battle.
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Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
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Keeping a diary has been a common pandemic pastime throughout history.
Boots hot water bottles.
Hot water bottles have been used to heat beds for centuries but our modern rubber iterations only came about in the mid-19th century.
Too Many Blackamoors by Heather Agyepong (2021).
Lakeside Arts
The exhibition celebrates and interrogates the cultural afterlives of Victorian Britain.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
World History Archive/Alamy
The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Tom Baker as Doctor Who.
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Set firmly within the BBC’s public service broadcasting ethos of informing, educating and entertaining, Doctor Who quickly became a mainstay of Saturday evening viewing
The Great Fire of London by Josepha Jane Battlehooke (1675).
Museum of London
Writers at the time were much more concerned with the fire’s destructive power than describing how it started in any detail.
Olga Kurylenko in Boudica.
Signature Entertainment
A lively and violent retelling of the ancient British queen’s story.
The Welsh National Mining Memorial was unveiled in Senghenydd in 2013.
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Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
David Olusoga is calling on schools to teach more about the histories of the other nations of the UK in his new BBC show, Union.
BBC/Wall to Wall Media
If history is to be of any use to those who study it, it ought to help them understand the nature of the country and society they live in.
Noblewomen eating ice cream in a French caricature, (1801).
Gallica
Chicken pâté was mixed with gravy, gelatine and whipped cream, before being frozen in decorative cups.
Teenagers enjoying a reggae sound system at the 1981 Notting Hill Carnival.
Homer Sykes/Alamy Stock Photo
The arrival of Windrush brought new forms of music to Britain.