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The House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration

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Your guide toThe South Sea Bubble

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

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Sly cakes (Picture by Sam Nott)

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Two-Penny Whist, published January 11, 1796, James Gillray (English, 1756-1815), published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818), England, Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper, 231 × 334 mm (image), 247 × 350 mm (plate), 270 × 384 mm (sheet). (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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15 minutes of fameHannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

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Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Adam Henson and Robert Bakewell

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Hannah HumphreyEntrepreneurial Georgian printseller. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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5 of the worst years in British history

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

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From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

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Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Edward Jenner

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Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

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Beyond fashion: 6 accessories that reveal changing attitudes in society, from the Georgians to the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Ginger Rogers

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A portrait of William IV

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Your guide to William IV, the ‘sailor king’

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot in Netflix's 2022 adaptation of Persuasion, the final completed novel by Jane Austen

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Persuasion“The essence and spirit of Austen’s work are fundamentally changed”

The origins of the Conservative Party can be traced to the ‘Tory’ group in parliament which emerged in the last quarter of the 17th century and, led by Lord Bolingbroke (pictured) and Robert Harley, held power during the final years of Queen Anne’s reign. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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c1400 farmer ploughing a field.

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6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

A Maria Spilsbury painting of a group sat at a drawing room table

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Painting showing the surrender at Yorktown – a man on a horse moves between two lines of cavalry

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The battle of Brooklyn (aka the battle of Long Island), 27 August 1776

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American Revolutionary War: the 9 battles that made the United States

A late 18th-century portrait of proto-feminist and first lady Abigail Adams

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A portrait of silversmith Paul Revere, with his head resting on his hand.

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19 key figures of the American Revolution, from royals to revolutionaries

A portrait of Benjamin Franklin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The first major clash of the war of American independence, at Bunker Hill

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Tea, taxes and the taking up of arms: a timeline of the American Revolution

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