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Queen Victoria

The final days and death of Queen Victoria

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

“Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history”: Robert Tombs on Britain’s complex relationship with Europe

King George III

The decline of George III

Emma Griffin tackles questions about Britain’s Industrial Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton: “A period drama like no other”

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London

The future King George VI playing at the Wimbledon tennis championships, 1926

How George VI’s sheer ordinariness made him the darling of the nation

Paul Edmondson answers listener questions on the life and work of England’s most famous playwright. (Image by Getty Images)

Shakespeare: everything you wanted to know

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Prince Charles and Camilla: a history of their romance

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E5 real history: Michael Fagan’s Buckingham Palace break-in and the Falklands crisis

Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer on her wedding day in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E3 real history: Diana’s struggles, the ‘G’ & ‘F’ bracelet, and a royal engagement

Statue of King Alfred the Great in leafy Trinity Church Square, Southwark. It is thought to be the oldest statue in London.

Q&A What’s the oldest statue in London?

Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945

7 facts about Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan

Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan: what happened and why did he break in?