Jonathan Wright

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Archaeologist in Pompeii

History TV and radio in the UK: what’s on our screens this week?

Margaret Lockwood as Katherine Ferrers

Q&A Were there any real highwaywomen, and did they dress up as men?

Austin Butler as Gale Cleven in Masters of the Air

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Jane Austen, c1790

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Lucy Worsley. (Photo by BBC Studios)

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A 1948 photograph of the House of Epidius Rufus in Pompeii. The structure had to be rebuilt after being damaged by Allied bombs during WWII (Photo by SuperStock/Alamy Stock Photo)

How were Pompeii and Herculaneum discovered?

Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century – houses and people walking past.

Recaptive Number 11,407 Piecing together the life of a freed slave

James Lawson hosting a press conference in Alabama

Who were the key figures of the civil rights movement?

Frida Kahlo painting

Who was Frida Kahlo? Her life and legacy

The Imperial State Crown, which alone has 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 5 rubies is a priceless symbol of the British monarchy (Picture by Getty)

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6 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Crown Jewels

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer

Polish coat of arms on red background

Poland and Ukraine’s shared history: how dreams of nationhood endure

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

Lindsay Duncan, who plays aristocratic adventurer Jane Digby in the BBC One adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days

Jane Digby: Lindsay Duncan on playing the aristocratic adventurer in Around the World in 80 Days