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The real Boys in the Boat during the Poughkeepsie Regatta

The Boys in the Boat: the real history behind George Clooney's underdog sports movie

Life of the Week: Stalin.

Protestors against the Sedition Act outside the White House

What was the 1918 Sedition Act?

How spies shaped the modern world.

Race across the Atlantic: 1969's wackiest escapade.

Sherlock Holmes: the real history that inspired the detective stories.

A painting of a partially clothed man (wearing shorts, and an open shirt) reclining on a bed.

The new radicals: how the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture.

Video podcastNazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander.

Life of the week: Amelia Earhart.

Consuelo Vanderbilt reclining for a photograph.

Dollar princessesThe American heiresses who changed the face of British aristocracy

Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander.

1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales in 'The Crown' (left) and Princess Diana touring an

The Crown S6: the real history in the royal drama

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, and the real Queen Elizabeth II

Netflix’s The Crown: the real history behind the royal drama

Video podcastNetflix’s The Crown: history and storytelling.

Video podcastTim Peake on the human history of space.

Tim Peake on the human history of space.

Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton Buckingham Palace, following their wedding at Westminster Abbey, 29 April 2011. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)

How to marry a monarch.

Rufus Kampa as Prince William

The Crown S6: the challenges of telling the story of living royals.

Video podcastMarshal Pétain: Vichy France in the dock.

Marshal Pétain: Vichy France in the dock.

Video podcast1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

The Munich beer hall putsch: a botched coup?.

Cartoon Century: Disney at 100.

A dark silhouette appearing behind a door.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesA student's 'poltergeist'.

The ultimate Windsors quiz.

Video podcastResistance in the Second World War.

Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales, accompanied by Rufus Kampa as Prince William and Fflyn Edwards as Prince Harry

“Haunted, in more ways than one”: A historian’s review of The Crown S6, part 1

What was Queen Elizabeth II like as a mother?.