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Jacqueline Riding considers whether the Jacobite prince was a valiant freedom fighter, or a haughty coward. (Image by Getty Images)

Bonnie Prince Charlie: hero or coward?

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

Jessie Childs tells the story of Tudor gentleman Thomas Tresham, whose faith set him at odds with the Virgin Queen. (Image by Getty Images)

Editor’s pick: covert Catholicism in Elizabethan England

Charles Edward Stuart, aka 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

What happened when Thomas Becket, was brutally murdered in his cathedral? (Image by Getty Images)

Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom

Elizabeth I preferred thoughtful new year gifts suited to her own tastes such as cloth, personal jewellery and trinkets. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Sobriety, royal presents and Victorian-era musings on failure: an unexpected history of New Year

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton: “A period drama like no other”

Hannah Greig, historian and etiquette advisor to new Netflix show Bridgerton, joins us to talk about the historical detail that can be found in the drama. (Image courtesy Netflix)

Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance

Lauren Johnson responds to listener questions about the Wars of the Roses. (Image by Getty Images)

The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know

The Beagle sailed with a young Charles Darwin on board, his influential ideas yet to be formulated. (Image by Getty Images)

Charles Darwin and the Beagle: how the voyage transformed our understanding of the world

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952. (Photo by REX/Associated Newspapers)

A brief history of Boxing Day

Colin Grant tells the stories of postwar immigrants who moved to Britain from the Caribbean.

Editor’s pick: the Windrush generation

HistoryExtra Christmas quiz 2020

Our 2020 Christmas quiz

A Victorian Christmas card

HistoryExtra’s Christmas history quiz 2020