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'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

This caricature of those meetings depicts proceedings turning to chaos, thanks to the arrival of Napoleon – freshly escaped from his exile on Elba before 'the cake' (Europe) has even been cut

Europe after Napoleon: what the Congress of Vienna meant for the coalition powers.

French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant holding the skull of Yorik

The wisdom of Shakespeare: 5 famous quotes explained.

Napoleon's planned invasion of England: what went wrong?

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

An early Christian standing stone situated in an open field at Gelligaer Common near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the villages that disappeared.

A red herring on a plate

Q&AWhy do we say ‘red herring’?

A portrait of Napoleon

Napoleon: a life in 10 objects

The changing shape of slimming clubs.

Napoleon Bonaparte on his deathbed. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Image)

What killed Napoleon Bonaparte?

A statue of the Roman emperor Augustus in Augsburg, Germany. (Image by Alamy)

The fall of Roman Britain: how life changed for Britons after the empire

Tutankhamun death mask

QuizTutankhamun: do you know all the boy king’s secrets?.

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee.

A cartoon of Napoleon and King George III.

Q&AHow tall was Napoleon Bonaparte?

Painting of Napoleon in St Helena

Napoleon on St Helena: how exile became the French emperor's last battle

Napoleon is apprehended by French soldiers on his return from Elba. Rather than take him to Paris in chains, the soldiers joined him

Napoleon's comeback: from exile on Elba to the Hundred Days

An early 19th-century painting of Napoleon Bonaparte

Q&AWhere is Napoleon buried?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte: facts about his life, death and career

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?.

The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, as depicted by artist Charles Thévenin

Napoleon’s chance: why the French Revolution was Bonaparte's big break

Prohibition: everything you wanted to know.

The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England?.

Festival of Britain official programme. The event was held in 1951 on London's South Bank

The 1951 Festival of Britain: banishing the gloom of postwar Britain.

Britain’s great postwar party.

Outlander: the real history that inspired the time-slip drama

Alcohol is poured away into a New York sewer during the prohibition era, c1920

QuizProhibition: how much do you know about the US ban on booze?

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

Happier days: The tsar and his family pose for a portrait in c1910, years before he was swept from power and murdered. Maria, Olga and Tatiana (left to right) are at the back. Alexandra and Nicholas are seated with Alexey at their feet. Anastasia is far right. (Photo by Getty Images)

The last days of the Romanovs: could George V have saved the family?

The death of Wat Tyler', 1859. Tyler was a leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England, which saw a group of rebels march on London to oppose the institution of a poll tax and demand economic and social reforms. He was killed by officers loyal to King Richard II during negotiations at Smithfield, London. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Your guide to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381

In their own words: the team behind Apollo 11 describe the 1969 mission to the Moon.