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A Very English Scandal. (BBC/Blueprint Television Ltd)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week (26 May–1 June 2018)

Alias Grace. (Photo by Jan Thijs/Netflix)

14 of the best historical TV shows on Netflix

Prohibition protesters parade in a car emblazoned with signs and flags calling for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, which outlawed the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

“A great social experiment”: your guide to prohibition

Queen Victoria with children

Queen Victoria’s children

King John. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Why ‘Bad King John’ was actually good

A female computer programmer demonstrates a new computer in the 1960s.

The changing role of women in British computing

Historian John Ashdown-Hill

Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

King Richard III Tomb

Richard III: a ‘car park king’ timeline

Queen Victoria. (Getty Images)

Queen Victoria timeline: 9 milestones in the monarch’s life

A group of men wearing togas assault Julius Caesar in this painting depicting his assassination.

Violence, rebellion and sexual exploitation: the darker side of ancient Rome

Scene depicting rural life in Stuart Britain. (via Getty Images)

Stuart Britain: what was life like for ordinary people?

Actor William Gillette playing the detective Sherlock Holmes. (Photo by Gillette/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing

Winchester History Weekend 2017.

We’ve got royal history covered at this year’s History Weekends