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An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800

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

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?.

Strange and surprising pastimes of the Regency Ton

The Boston Tea Party.

A Christmas feastThree historical festive recipes.

Georgian Twelfth cake. (Photo by Eleanor Barnett)

A Christmas feastHow to make Georgian Twelfth cake.

An illustration showing protesters dressed as Native Americans emptying the contents of crates of tea from an East India Company ship into Boston harbour

The brutality behind the Boston Tea Party.

VideoAn introduction to George III.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party5. A complex legacy.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party4. The crackdown.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party3. The destruction of the tea.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party2. The Sons of Liberty.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party1. Tea and taxes.

A cartoon about the Tea Act shows a colonist reading the proclamation with concern

What was the 1773 Tea Act?

Video podcastGeorgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them.

Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them.

Deborah Meaden and Lady Hester Stanhope

My history heroDeborah Meaden chooses Lady Hester Stanhope.

A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot

American suffragettes picket a building

The global legacy of the Boston Tea Party.

This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773

Boston Tea Party: your guide to the protest that ignited a revolution

Video podcastThe dangerous road to the Bastille.

The dangerous road to the Bastille.

Napoleon’s mother, Letizia Bonaparte

Who was Letizia Bonaparte, the mother of Napoleon?.

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais: how Napoleon's muse became empress of France

Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: how accurate is the movie? The real history explained

Allies in retreat from Austerlitz

Austerlitz: how Napoleon crushed the Austro-Russian army

Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector.

An illustration showing the court of Ottoman sultan Selim III, featuring men in a courtyard and the seated sultan.

What was the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars?

The Meux & Co. brewery on Tottenham Court Road in c1830

The London Beer Flood of 1814: what happened in the deadly tragedy?