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The Woman In White. (BBC/Origin Pictures)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week (21-26 April 2018)

Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Chatsworth House, where Elizabeth I ordered for Mary, Queen of Scots to be imprisoned after she abdicated and fled from Scotland to England in 1567. (Photo by Chatsworth House Trust)

Britain’s 7 most amazing stately homes

A portrait of Charles I.

Has history been unfair to Charles I?

Kit Harington as plotter Robert Catesby in the BBC drama 'Gunpowder'. (BBC/Kudos)

What if the gunpowder plot had succeeded?

Operators dealing with emergency calls at New Scotland Yard, London, c1956. (Photo by Reg Speller/Getty Images)

5 crimes that changed law enforcement in Britain

The execution of Charles I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Murder, conspiracy and execution: six centuries of scandalous royal deaths

A portrait of Samuel Pepys

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Pancake day celebrations

The history of Shrove Tuesday

Actresses in historical drama Jamestown

Transported to 17th-century Virginia: an interview with the women of ‘Jamestown’

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Charles II on the run

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why the gunpowder plot went up in smoke

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Spooky Stuart ghost stories