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Historical recipeClassic canelés.

Pharaohs' pants & knightly toilet troubles: teaching history to kids.

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Period drama podcast episodes

Halloween monsters: everything you wanted to know.

Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know.

A family history of the world.

Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history.

Sci-fi history: everything you wanted to know.

Prime minister Edward Heath

A brief history of U-turns.

Prime minister and king in black and white photo

Q&APrior to 2022, has there ever been a new monarch and prime minister in Britain in the same week?.

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Halloween podcast episodes

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

Spectacles of death: public executions in London.

The Bank of England: everything you wanted to know.

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Empire: the big historical questions.

15 minutes of fameRediscovering forgotten figures.

Black British history: everything you wanted to know.

Image of black people protesting. (GettyImages_1153422488)

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Black British historyA timeline of key moments

Image of Somalians meeting in a cafe

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Black British historyKey questions answered

The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

5 of the worst years in British history

(L to R) Elizabeth I, Charles II and Edward VII

How to be a successorDo’s and don’ts for heirs to the throne from history.

Hakim Adi

Hakim Adi“There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”.

African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history.

Royal funerals: everything you wanted to know.

Queen Victoria's son, King Edward VII, rides in Queen Victoria's funeral procession, February 1901. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images)

Lessons from historyWhat happens when a monarch dies?.

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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QuizBritish prime ministers

How nomads changed the world.

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Monarchy timelineFrom Hastings to the Windsors in 122 moments

The big questions of religious history.

Castles: from mighty fortresses to fantastical palaces.