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Servants pour wine to Jacobean gentlemen in a London tavern, c.early 17th century

A better deal than Downton? A day in the life of a Jacobean servant

British soldiers lie on the floor an gumpoint during the Falklands War, guarded by Argentine soldiers

The Falklands War: why did it happen?

Digging up Roman London

The Oxford boat on the Thames during first ever Boat Race between between the Oxford and Cambridge university boat clubs, 1829.

Oxford v Cambridge: A history of the boat race

United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

Is the future of Nato under threat?

Claudia Severa’s preserved party invitation from Vindolanda

Q&AWhat was written on the Vindolanda Tablets?

Life in Cromwell’s Britain

Ancient Moai of Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island

The magnificent moai – facts about the statues of Rapa Nui

Moai statues at Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui’s largest ceremonial structure

What happened to the people of Rapa Nui?

1942: Churchill’s darkest hour

Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. (Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)

Hadrian's Wall: when and why was it built? A brief guide

What if…George III hadn't 'lost' the colonies?

Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton and Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton season 2

How to succeed in Regency courtship

Bridgerton: behind the scenes of season 2

A drawing of a Georgian woman in a wide dress and a towering wig

How to survive in the Georgian court

Our Winston Churchill obsession

Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire. (Photo by Archimage/Alamy Stock Photo)

Through the keyhole: how the finest mansions in Georgian Britain were furnished

The 30th Annual Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1958. (Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

13 remarkable moments in the history of the Oscars

A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton

Q&AHow did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?

c1935: Beatrice Shilling sits astride her Norton motorcycle. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

5 women inventors you should know about from history

The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know

Prohibition: busting myths about the ban on booze

A woman holds a pitchfork in an image from a recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army, 1940s.

Dig for Victory: Britain's WW2 war on hunger

Picture of a 19th-century bloomer costume

Q&AWhen did women start wearing trousers?

Carrot conspiracies & digging for victory: feeding Britain in WW2

Children of the Norman Conquest

The real Amazons: how the legendary warrior women inspired fighters, feminists and Wonder Woman

Photo of Chinese Red Guards

The Gordons: Prisoners of the Cultural Revolution

A portrait of Flora MacDonald, who found fame as a Jacobite heroine sailing Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety

Who was Flora MacDonald?