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19th century advert for snuff

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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.

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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”

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Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

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Edward Jenner

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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.

Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?.

The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar.

England’s sporting obsession.

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.

The colonial secrets of Britain’s stately homes.

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

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A 19th-century engraving of Francis Grose

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A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: reclaiming the reputation of a feminist icon.

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

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George Washington

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The Regency era: everything you wanted to know.

Enslaved women & resistance.

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?

The French Revolution: Everything you need to know.

An Atlantic slave war.

The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star