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Rich vs poor in Regency Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

A brief history of sea shanties

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

19th century advert for snuff

Q&AWhat was snuff?

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

Georgian Britain: sex in high places. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Your guide to Alexander Hamilton, plus 6 fascinating facts about the founding father

Edward Jenner

Q&AWhen did medical practitioners start to be called ‘doctor’?

Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

Nelson in his own words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Imperialism on the oceans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England’s sporting obsession. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

Surviving the gallows: the Georgian hangings that didn't go to plan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The colonial secrets of Britain’s stately homes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret as Prince Charming and Cinderella in a 1941 pantomime

Q&AWhat are the origins of the Christmas pantomime?

A 19th-century engraving of Francis Grose

History heroSusie Dent chooses Francis Grose (1731–1791)

Your guide to...debtors' prisons

The Wild West: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: reclaiming the reputation of a feminist icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

Lucy Worsley on royal history's biggest fibs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Washington

American presidents: 9 things you (probably) didn’t know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Regency era: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enslaved women & resistance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

Your guide to...transportation to Australia

A painting by Louis Philippe Crepin depicting the battle of Trafalgar, 1805. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The battle of Trafalgar, hour by hour: what happened and why did Britain win?