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Bombay, the East India Company's port on the Malabar Coast of India, 1755. Company trading vessels are depicted in the foreground and quayside warehouses and buildings behind. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The chaotic conquest of India.

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, which carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee, near Wrexham, North Wales. The aqueduct was built by Thomas Telford. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Thomas Telford: the man who built modern Britain.

The Duke of Wellington and his ‘Dearest Georgy’.

The impact of war and a zoological institution.

James Sadler: From pastry cook to first English aeronaut.

King James II of England and VII of Scotland (1633 - 1701), c. 1680. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A king without a crown: James VII and II’s years in exile.

Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Gibraltar

The Russian revolution and myths of ancient Egypt.

The French ballerina who became wealthier than Queen Victoria.

(Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

Who were 'Stella' and 'Fanny'?

BBC History Magazine

March 2017

A portrait of James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841–1918), by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1867. (Photo by The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

American president Franklin D Roosevelt

Second World War

Life of the Week: President Franklin D Roosevelt

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

BBC History Magazine

Special offer: Tickets only £5 to join Bettany Hughes for an evening on the history of Istanbul

Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial.

BBC History Magazine

April/May 2017

"The idea that pharaohs were worshipped as all-powerful gods is just plain silly": John Romer on the truth about ancient Egypt.

Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt

Giuseppe Garibaldi in Naples, Italy, 1861. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

God, gangs and Garibaldi.

Vintage family photo album and documents. (Getty Images)

How to become a local historian

The Battle of Britain.

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

The Temple Church, London, a late 12th-century church built for and by the Knights Templar. (Photo by LatitudeStock - David Williams/Getty Images)

History explorer: The Knights Templar.

Wrought iron lace adorns many old buildings and houses in the streets of New Orleans. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: New Orleans, Louisiana

History quiz - daughters and dukes.

5 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Nelson’s navy.

A woodcut print of the medieval town of Pisa.

History quiz – shambles, soldiers and medieval towns.

6 strange newspaper stories that shocked Victorian Britain.

A history of Istanbul.