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Keith Lowe.

The psychological legacy of 1945: 60 seconds with Keith Lowe

Emma Hamilton, c1785. Overcoming serial mistreatment by men, she achieved celebr

Nelson's sensational mistress: How Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm

Britain’s Lost Masterpieces. (Image Credit: BBC/Tern Television/Laura Radford)

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (23-29 September 2017)

(Ullstein Bild/Topfoto)

China’s forgotten Second World War

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Alexander Hamilton

Janina Ramirez. (Image: Fran Monks)

Reformation or revolution? 60 seconds with Dr Janina Ramirez

The savage Reformation

(Illustration by Femke de Jong)

Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (16-22 September 2017)

October 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about the ancient Greeks

Illustration by Glen McBeth

What was England’s reaction to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751?

October/November issue of BBC World Histories is out now!

Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke in 'The Limehouse Golem'.

The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’

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