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Napoleon: the rise and fall of a dictator

Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) by Joseph Highmore (Photo by Alamy)

The feminist who waged war on smallpox

Robert Walpole, the first prime minister of Great Britain

Robert Walpole: Britain's first prime minister

Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Your guide to the battle of Culloden – plus 7 myths busted

Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning

A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

Q&ADid George Washington have wooden teeth?

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?

The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution

Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

To kill the cabinet: the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820

Engraved portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America

George Washington: your guide to the war hero, founding father, first US president and slave owner

How slavery fuelled the British empire

An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death

'Female husbands': the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers

Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale's classic 1931 film

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

Rich vs poor in Regency Britain

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

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know

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

Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton

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

Imperialism on the oceans