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An African man after being liberated from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, 1871. In all, more than 12 million captives were loaded onto Atlantic slavers’ vessels. (Pictures from History/Bridgeman Images)

A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Charles II and his parties

Charles II: was the king too randy to rule?

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague explained

The Great Plague, from a pictorial broadsheet of 1665-1666 (Photo by Getty Images)

Surviving the Great Plague

Robert Burton, a 17th-century scholar

Can the work of a 17th-century scholar help us understand mental illness?

What was a drunkard's cloak used for? This illustration shows a man wearing the archaic punishment tool designed to punish habitual drinkers. (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&A What was a drunkard’s cloak used for?

Linda Porter. (Photography by Nick Dawe)

Books interview: Linda Porter on the women in Charles II’s life

Queen Victoria on an ivory throne

Top 11 monarchs in British history

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

A brief history of changing hairstyles

great fire 4

Great Fire of London quiz – how much do you know?

The entry of Prince Charles Edward, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', into Edinburgh in Scotland in 1745. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Forty-five rebellion: why did it fail?

Linda Porter.

The mistresses of Charles II

(L to R) Isaac Newton, Henry VIII and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

How did people cope with ‘lockdowns’ of the past? And were they really all so productive?

Self portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi as a lute player (Photo by Getty Images)

The genius of Artemisia