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Captain Edward Teach, better known as 'Blackbeard', a pirate who plundered the coasts of the West Indies, North Carolina and Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The most famous and despicable pirates from history

Pod Rana Mitter WL

Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Podcast Dominic Sandbrook WL

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain

Illustration of King Louis IX.

A king of fire and light: Louis IX’s tangled legacy

Pod David Perry WL

Shining new light on medieval Europe

Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Alfred the Great: “He was an excellent king, but that’s not the whole story”

A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I’s sister for the throne

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

“A defining moment in the Troubles”: why we should remember Bloody Sunday

Pod Tom Morris WL

A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More’s Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Pod Mike Carr WL

Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages

Pod Thomas Harding WL

The Demerara slave uprising

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women’s lives like during the 17th-century plague?

When were punctuation marks first used? Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine.

General History

Q&A When were punctuation marks first used?