Emma Slattery Williams

Emma Slattery Williams was BBC History Revealed’s staff writer until August 2022, covering all areas of history – from Egyptian pharaohs and pirate queens to Queen Victoria and Marilyn Monroe. She also compiled HistoryExtra’s Victorian newsletter and interviewed historians on the HistoryExtra podcast.. She studied both History and English at Swansea University.

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Queen Victoria’s spy network. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

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A guide to the Seven Years’ War

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The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

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Hippocrates and humours: medicine in ancient Greece

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What was Christmas like in the Victorian era?

Painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold (artist unknown) from around 1545

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Your guide to...the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Famous Victorians: Emily Bronte and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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7 famous Victorians: from Brontë to Brunel

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Was Ramesses II really that great?

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