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Jane Austen Behind Closed Doors. (BBC/Chris Cardwell)

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (27 May–2 June 2017)

Photo M Larvey

The A to Z of life in Pompeii with Mary Beard

How to throw a medieval feast

June 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

June/July issue of BBC World Histories out now!

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers. (© Getty images)

Britain at war over Vietnam

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. Was the famous queen a feminist before her time? (Get

Anne Boleyn: a 16th-century feminist?

The White Princess. (Starz)

The real history behind ‘The White Princess’

Arena: American Epic . (BBC)

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (20–26 May 2017)

History Extra website: tell us what you think

Illustrations by Andy Tuohy.

History Hot 100: vote for history's hottest names in 2017

Pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing

Illustrations by Andy Tuohy.

History Hot 100 results: the historical figures who fascinated you most in 2016

Grace Humiston was nicknamed 'Mrs Holmes' by the American press. (Brad Ricca)

America’s ‘Mrs Holmes’: how one woman took on the cases the NYPD couldn’t solve

Reconciliation between Thomas a Becket & Henry II. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of gestures - from the handshake to the high-five

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