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Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

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Q&AWhy do Americans call the British ‘limeys’?

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)

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Reporting from war zones

The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

Adrian Turner as Poldark. (Photo by BBC Pictures)

Poldark’s Cornwall: the history behind the hit series

A painting depicting the storming of the Tuileries. (Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Socialite, spy, saviour: Grace Dalrymple Elliott

The London & North Western Railway locomotive Jeanie Deans picking up water at Bushey Troughs, 1899. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Europe’s century of peace and progress

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe

View of the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The LibraryHistory explorer: the Napoleonic Wars

The end of the First World War and the Duke of Wellington

Queen Street Mill in Burnley. (Photo by Alamy)

History explorer: the power of cotton

7 unusual historical sites in Britain and Ireland

A prodigy in England: Lucy Worsley on Mozart’s London odyssey

Student life and working class culture

The Chateau d'Hougoutmont, Belgium, was the scene of one of the most important battles in British and European history – the battle of Waterloo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bravery at Waterloo: the button seller and the drummer boy

The Grand Bridge at Blenheim. (Getty Images)

History explorerBlenheim Palace and Capability Brown

A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

How people make the past

The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

Britain's 10 best palaces

Benjamin Franklin in London

The Romanovs, 1913: Nicholas II with his wife and children. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Books interview with Simon Sebag Montefiore: The Romanovs

Photo of a couple holding up a fan

Q&AWhat signals were used in fan language?

A Royal Navy battle

The Royal Navy’s American disaster

Monument to Alexander von Humboldt

Books interview with Andrea Wulf: "Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism"

The Death of General Wolfe

The Georgian craze for popular history

17 unmissable battles podcasts

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history