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7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments.

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.

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded.

The title page and frontispiece of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, a first-hand account of his experience in slavery and how he seized his freedom. (Image by Getty Images)

David Olusoga on the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano.

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.

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&AWhy 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.

Wedgwood: the radical potter.

A portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton

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

Moves still from Rob Roy

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland.

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment.

Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott: the man who invented Scotland.

Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France.

How should we teach the slave trade?.

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch.

Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?.

The slave trade: a family history.

French Revolution Quiz – test your knowledge with our history quiz

QuizHow much do you know about the French Revolution?

Are revolutions doomed to failure?.

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Q&AWho wrote the French national anthem?

Napoleon portrait by Jacques-Louis David shows is perhaps the most famous painting of the French emperor with one hand tucked out of sight

Why do Napoleon’s portraits often show him with one hand inside his shirt? The story of the French emperor’s missing hand…

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier’s painting portrays the Declaration of the Rights of Man

How progressive was the French Revolution?

Britain & France: enemies or economic partners?

Britain & France: enemies or economic partners?.