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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?

Napoleonic Wars timeline: the key dates you need to know

A portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) during the Napoleonic Wars. Although Waterloo was "undeniably the most pivotal battle of this campaign", it was not the final battle against France, says Jem Duducu. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Napoleonic Wars

Slave traders: the men who built a brutal empire

8 scandals that rocked Georgian Britain

Portrait of Elizabeth Linley

8 scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Jane Austen’s passion for fashion

Great Reputations: Napoleon

A modern painting of the battle of Long Island

What if…the Continental Army had not escaped after the battle of Long Island?

Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century – houses and people walking past.

Recaptive Number 11,407Piecing together the life of a freed slave

William Blake – black and white engraving

"In an inclusive public culture, Blake’s is a great, passionate human voice"Michael Wood on William Blake and Glastonbury

A painted portrait of William Blake

William BlakeRomantic visionary

A portrait of Chevalier d’Éon presenting as a woma

Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy

Why is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

Ridley’s Scott’s Napoleon trailer: a historian reacts

What should we make of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon?

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery

A painting of Napoleon.

Napoleonic Wars podcast episodes

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution

How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy

The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life

The Luddites: everything you wanted to know

The myth and memory of Waterloo

The Duke of Cumberland leans awat from two ghostly men, wearing white robes and wielding razor blades, as smoke rises around them

Royals on the stand: how Queen Charlotte’s son the Duke of Cumberland faced down a libel scandal