May
Can we ever fully understand the past?
William Garrow, a legal pioneer
Criminal (in)justice in 18th-century England
June
Bizarre fashions: wigs and false hair
Drunken church bell ringing, then and now?
Manlike monsters in medieval manuscripts
Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History, Vol. I
Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History, Vol. II
Sex, the law, and the press in Georgian London
July
Boys will be boys: gender segregation in Edwardian Oxford
Mrs Beeton’s advertisements
Censoring Shakespeare
August
Edison’s elephant electrocution
Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History, Vol. III
The 14th-century Mafia? Folville, Coterel & Co
The SS guide to Great Britain
September
17th-century courting advice
Medieval reenactment in Victorian England
Wanted: an ornamental hermit
Quack medicine: the “Grape Cure”
October
Benjamin Britten and WW2 propaganda
Etiquette advice from 1679
Kolmanskop, a Namibian ghost town
The Heidelberg Rapunzel
November
Filth, disease and Dickens: Jacob’s Island, a London slum
Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History, Vol. IV
“This murdering play”: the violent origins of English football
December
A history of mince pies
Christmas pudding: a history
What did people die of in the past?