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Padraic X Scanlan discusses how slavery fuelled the British empire and explores the complicated motivations of abolitionists. (Image by Getty Images)

How slavery fuelled the British empire

Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale’s classic 1931 film. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

Historian Ian Mortimer discusses how a vast chasm between rich and poor marked society in the early 19th century. (Image by Getty Images)

Rich vs poor in Regency Britain

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800. (Image by Alamy)

Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain

Lithograph portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard

An illustration of the head of Louis XVI

The French Revolution through 7 severed heads

Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The real story of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte: from glittering courts to tragic decline

An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

A brief history of sea shanties

Nelson stands in the Nile culling crocodiles in James Gillray's cartoon 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt' (1798). The crocodiles represent captured or destroyed French ships at the battle of the Nile, while Nelson is cast as a cross between Moses and Hercules. (Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor’s guide to Georgian marriage

19th century advert for snuff

Q&A What was snuff?

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

Georgian Britain: sex in high places

King George III

The decline of George III

A portrait of Russian empress Catherine the Great

Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac: is Catherine the Great’s reputation justified?

Emma Griffin tackles questions about Britain’s Industrial Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know