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Basildon Park in Berkshire

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The profits of slaveryThe dire impact of empire on Britain's countryside. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sexuality on trial in colonial America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Britain really rule the waves?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jane Austen: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The princess who fled Romanov Russia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett for Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice' (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Honeymooning with your mother-in-law? The truths of Regency romance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Catherine the Great and (inset) a horse

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Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse?

Portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman.

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The real reason Jane Austen never married

Jane Austen's grave.

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Lupus or murder?What was Jane Austen's cause of death?

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My history heroMary Archer chooses Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sacagawea: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Embalmed figure of Jeremy Bentham

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“A wax head with his own hair had to suffice”: the horror of Jeremy Bentham’s ‘auto-icon’

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Catherine the Great: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American actress Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hayes. (Image by Alamy)

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How Georgian and Victorian same-sex couples co-opted marital traditions and made them their own. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Iain Duncan Smith and Robert Peel

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My history heroIain Duncan Smith chooses Robert Peel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fess Parker, an American actor, as Davy Crockett

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The man in the coonskin cap: your guide to Davy Crockett

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

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"An enlightened turn": how medicine (and the vaccination) developed in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroSteve Hackett chooses Thomas Paine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A vessel at sea comes across the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman

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Seven of history's most disturbing ghost ship stories that will haunt your dreams

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The race to identify all living creatures. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

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Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft: the firebrand feminist thinker with a rule-breaking life

Portrait of George III.

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QuizHow well do you know the Georgian period?

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Britain’s war on the slave ships: how the Royal Navy policed the Atlantic in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Boston Tea PartyIgniting a revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Week fourSlavery and abolition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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