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Edvard Munch's painting 'Love and Pain'

The Vampyre stirs: 200 years of vampire entertainment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A poster for Terence Fisher's 1958 horror 'Dracula'

From Dracula to The Historian: 5 gothic novels that reflected the anxieties of their age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the American Revolution created a global storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 'Thanksgiving Greetings' postcard. (Photo by K.J. Historical/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

A brief history of Thanksgiving. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles I's great weakness was that he made a strict distinction between his role as king, in which he could not compromise, and his personal role, which was entirely pleasant and courteous, says Sean Lang. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

8 of the nicest kings in history

A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield

Why Britain punched above its weight

6 novels that captured life in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James VI and I depicted in Parliament, c1605

Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘Golden Speech’ and 5 more key moments in the history of crown and parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Being invited to become a 'guest' of the Tower of London in medieval England meant, more often than not, that you would soon be food for the crows. (Image by Getty Images/RM Creative)

10 historical haunted sites across Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 Georgian ghost hoaxes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gin Lane, a print issued in 1751 by painter and printmaker William Hogarth. It depicts the perceived evils of the consumption of gin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The 18th-century craze for gin

The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

Slave revolt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Marie Antoinette in deep mourning, while in prison

The final days of Marie Antoinette

William Dalrymple on the East India Company. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Catherine the Great: fact and fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A student party, c1824: Oxford undergraduates drinking together. drinking escapade.

The Georgian guide to university life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Highclere Castle

The secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The engine houses of Botallack mine in Cornwall

A visit to Botallack Mine, Cornwall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US soldiers in Vietnam

From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters at St Peter's Field, Manchester, as depicted in an 1819 engraving. What followed was the worst violence ever to occur at a political meeting in Britain. (Picture by Alamy)

The Peterloo Massacre: what did it achieve?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The HMS Victory in Portsmouth

A visit to HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 19th or early 20th-century painting entitled 'Mother and Child'. As fertility rates fell, sentimental idealisations of mothers and babies developed. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The motherhood revolution: how the great fertility decline affected the lives of women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Literary women through the ages: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë all enjoyed female friendships which enriched their writing, say Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney. (Getty Images)

From Austen & Brontë to Woolf: literature’s forgotten female friendships. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

For our forebears, the secret to a good night's sleep lay in the contents of your gut. (Photo by Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

6 sleeping tips and tricks from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain didn't "rule the waves" after the battle of Trafalgar, says historian Sam Willis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s 7 most amazing stately homes

Clash between the English Temeraire and the French Redoutable ships during the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

The battle of Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.