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Waterloo 200 special.

James Watt: your guide to the pioneer of steam engine technology

Waterloo: what was the battle like for Wellington’s Redcoats?.

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature.

Jane Austen

My history heroJane Austen (1775–1817).

Female warriors from Benin

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

Actors in a staging of Shakepeare's 'Macbeth'

Q&AWhy don't actors refer to the Shakespeare play Macbeth by name?

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

William Hogarth

My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

An engraving of Admiral Lord Nelson

Q&AWhy do we say ‘turn a blind eye’?

Debating British monarchy.

Napoleon’s surrender: letter begging Prince Regent for mercy after Waterloo defeat to go on show in Windsor

View of a sham fight on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, 1814

The year when fear of Napoleon stalked the land.

Q&AWhy were people of noble birth said to be ‘blue blooded’?

A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte

Why Napoleon merits the title 'the Great'.

Georgian gardens and historical fiction.

Morris dancers perform

Steps in time: Dancing through history.

Sam’s historical recipe corner: Beef olives.

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

George III and the art of anatomy.

Photo of the American flag

Q&AWhat was the first ‘Star Spangled Banner’?.

The bloody world of Georgian female boxing.

Panic ensues in this depiction of the Peterloo Massacre, published in 1819. (The art archive/Getty Images)

Why were there so few casualties at Peterloo?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

A portrait of Janice Hadlow

Janice Hadlow"The picture of George III’s family is often sad – these are genuinely thwarted lives".

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Q&AWas Thomas Jefferson an atheist?

William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

History explorer: The English landscape garden.

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth.

Photo of Chelsea Pensioners

Q&ACould you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?