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Tyburn, just north of Marble Arch, served as the capital's hanging spot for centuries. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

An A-Z guide to the history of executions

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

The Georgian guide to university life

Highclere Castle

Unusable rooms, a lost village and Tutankhamun: the secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

How did England react to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751? (Illustration for BBC History Magazine)

Q&A What was England’s reaction to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751?

A portrait of Russian empress Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great: Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac?

The engine houses of Botallack mine in Cornwall

A visit to Botallack Mine, Cornwall

'Sanditon' - an adaption of Jane Austen's unfinished novel of the same name – is currently airing in the UK on ITV. Pictured: Clara Brereton (played by Lily Sacofsky), Esther Denham (Charlotte Spencer), Lady Denham (Anne Reid) and Edward Denham (Jack Fox). (Photo by RED PLANET/ITV)

Your guide to Sanditon, Jane Austen’s last unfinished work

South Vietnam 1967: Battle weary U.S. soldiers pause for a moment's rest after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

War trauma

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Jane Austen’s fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?

An illustration showing interior of the House of Commons

9 things you didn’t know about the history of parliament

A Maria Spilsbury painting of a group sat at a drawing room table

Romance and reality in Jane Austen’s world

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Castaways: 5 remarkable shipwreck stories from history

The Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819 was the bloodiest political event of the 19th century on English soil. Troops under the authority of the Lancashire and Cheshire magistrates attacked and dispersed a rally of some 50,000 reformers on St Peter’s Field, Manchester. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Peterloo: the English uprising

Peterloo Massacre podcast.

Peterloo: the story of a massacre

Bonaparte Crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Napoleon Bonaparte: the rise and fall of a dictator