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Q&AWhy do we say 'Peeping Tom'?

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wedgwood: the radical potter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nelson's sensational mistress: how Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Walter Scott: the man who invented Scotland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How should we teach the slave trade?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The slave trade: a family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

QuizHow much do you know about the French Revolution?

Are revolutions doomed to failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWho wrote the French national anthem?

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

How progressive was the French Revolution?

Britain & France: enemies or economic partners?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

French Revolution podcast episodes

The smile revolution against the Reign of Terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What is a revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guillotined in the French Revolution: the bloody story through 7 severed heads

How the architects of the 'Terror' after the French Revolution ended up among its victims. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What triggered the French Revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&ADid the French invent the guillotine?

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

Britain’s illegal war: the story of the battle of Copenhagen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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