Period

Finger painting.

George III at the end of his reign. He "represented the uncontrollable aspects of humanity that the Enlightenment could not explain," says Stella Tillyard. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period.

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Darfur: The history behind the bloodshed

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Liar, liar

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James V’s Stirling Heads unveiled

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Why is the American city of Cincinnati named after a hero of ancient Rome?

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Austerity measures will open the door to the black market

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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

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Share your 20th-century stories with the BBC

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The Dangerous Trade

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster.

Communist sport: Cold War copycats.

Robert Burns: the people’s poet.

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965).

John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings.

The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem.

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Jenkins’ Ear?

Henry VIII: Three films

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

Second World War

The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933–1939

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Talk like a lady

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Rare Chartist pamphlet discovered

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The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

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The price of smoke

Q&AWho was John Parkes, a 'gladiator by profession'?.

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Man may have sailed the sea 130,000 years ago

General prehistory

Skara Brae