Georgian

Stella Dadzie on the HistoryExtra podcast (Image by Getty Images)

Enslaved women & resistance

The three shortlisted finalists for the 2020 Cundill History Prize.

Judges reveal the finalists of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

Early 19th-century engraving of a convict ship, ready to sail from England to Austrailia

Your guide to... transportation to Australia

A painting by Louis Philippe Crepin depicting the battle of Trafalgar, 1805. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The battle of Trafalgar, hour by hour: what happened and why did Britain win?

Marisa Linton on the French Revolution.

The French Revolution: Everything you need to know

Vincent Brown talks about 'Tacky's Revolt' on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An Atlantic slave war

AUSTRIA - CIRCA 1778: Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France, Daughter of Maria Theresia. Canvas by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Marie Antoinette, Erzherzogin von Oesterreich, Koenigin von Frankreich (1755-1793), Tochter von Maria Theresia Joseph, 1778. Gemaelde von Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun]

Marie Antoinette: the last queen of France

Trick photograph. (Photo by LM Melander and Brothers) entitled 'The Haunted Lane,' depicts a pair of men terrified by a female ghost, mid-to-late 19th century. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

5 historic hauntings for Halloween

Tom Cribb lands a punch on Tom Molineaux while Molineaux's trainer, Bill Richmond, looks on. Molineaux got the upper hand in the pair's first fight – which ended in controversy when a mob stormed the ring – but was defeated in this, the 1811 rematch. (Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain’s first black sports star

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga "Black history affects all of us – it is British history"

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture

Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life

Napoleon watches on as the fighting at Waterloo unfolds in this 1843 painting

What if… Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

The East India Company: everything you wanted to know