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A glass of wine and dish

Q&AWhich are the oldest surviving restaurants in London?

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory.

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783.

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Waterloo: the historians' verdict.

Margam Park, Port Talbot

Smithills Hall, Bolton

6 royal births that rocked a nation.

Erddig, Wrexham

Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747.

General prehistory

Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

A woodcut depicting a witch hanging in England, c17th Century. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials

Royal Gunpowder Mills, Essex

History heroJo Brand chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97).

Dawyck Botanic Garden, Scottish Borders

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805).

A big day in history: Rioters give East Anglia's rich and respectable a fright.

Q&A: Why did news of Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar take so long to reach England?.

Visit historic Warwick

Grosvenor Museum, Chester

Ye olde travel guide: Rio de Janeiro 1820.

Polperro Museum, Cornwall

History explorer: the historic Culloden battlefield

An oil painting depicting the battle of Camperdown, a "crushing British victory" over the Batavian (Dutch) Republic in the North Sea. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Tales from Nelson's navy.

An illustration depicting the battle of Naseby, arguably one of the most significant land battles in British history. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

20 important battles that shaped Britain

The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London

A rail revolution: Dan Snow on the meteoric rise of British railways.

The Bank of England in a late 18th century illustration. A 1783 investigation into malpractice at the Bank is reminiscent of the current financial crisis. (Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Georgian banking blunders.

John Linnell's 1816 portrait of Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick. His high-pressure steam engine "was the invention that unleashed power on this planet," says Michael Mosley. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Richard Trevithick (1771-1833).