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7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments. (Getty Images)

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments

A kelpie, from British folklore. (Image by Getty Images)

Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales

Pod Emma Rothschild WL

A family history of France

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history

Pod Marjoleine Kars WL

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded

The title page and frontispiece of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

David Olusoga on the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano

George III. (Image by Alamy)

George III: the tyrant who lost America?

A portrait from the 18th century of King George III wearing his coronation robes

George III: why his reputation as the mad king who lost America needs to be re-evaluated

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world

Ian Keable describes some of the most audacious, bizarre and inventive pranks that fooled Georgian Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

Extraordinary hoaxes of the 18th century

Empress Maria Theresa, a portrait

Maria Theresa: empress, warrior, matriarch

A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle

Q&A Why do we say 'Peeping Tom'?

An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses

Tristram Hunt discusses Josiah Wedgwood; groundbreaking potter, enterprising businessman and political radical. (Image by Getty Images)

Wedgwood: the radical potter

A portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton

Nelson’s sensational mistress: how Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm