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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?

The French Revolution: Everything you need to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Atlantic slave war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture

Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon watches on as the fighting at Waterloo unfolds in this 1843 painting

What if…Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

The East India Company: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How did England react to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751? (Illustration for BBC History Magazine)

Q&ADid the introduction of the Gregorian calendar spark riots?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

The uncommon lives of common sailors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Toft, perpetrator of the 1726 hoax – in which she appeared to give birth to rabbits

The woman who gave birth to rabbits? How Mary Toft's hoax captured Georgian society

As seen in this early 19th-century depiction of an initiation, Masons have long used secrecy to "create a sense of awe and specialness around their rituals". (Image by Alamy)

A history of Freemasonry: from Enlightenment ideals to satanic conspiracy stories

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The history of seduction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The real Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold on Covent Garden's courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sunbathers on Blackpool beach in 1954. (Credit: John Chillingworth/Getty Images)

Caravans, spa towns and seaside resorts: a brief history of British holidays. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A contemporary painting shows Parisians seizing weapons from the Hôtel des Invalides on 14 July 1789, ahead of the storming of the Bastille later that day. Before revolution swept through Paris, peasants across the country were abolishing a whole social order from below.

The French Revolution: a tale of two revolutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806. (Photo by IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo)

The dark side of Alexander Hamilton