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Victorian wedding, circa 1900: A wedding group poses in the garden, 1900. (Photo by F J Mortimer/Getty Images)

Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain

Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

The massacre at Wounded Knee: why did the US Army attack the Lakota Sioux?

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Part eighteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1850–1899. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1851: The Crystal Palace . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points 1832: The ‘Great’ Reform Act . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nellie Bly

Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

Lindsay Duncan, who plays aristocratic adventurer Jane Digby in the BBC One adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days

Jane Digby: Lindsay Duncan on playing the aristocratic adventurer in Around the World in 80 Days

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

A brief history of Boxing Day

Three medieval carol singers, image dated 1911

Christmas carols: the history behind 9 festive favourites

The characters Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, from Charles Dickens's work 'A Christmas Carol'

Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas as we know it today?

A Victorian Christmas card

HistoryExtra’s Christmas history quiz

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Christmas feasts with Annie Gray Episode 3: Victorian merrymaking . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tom Smith's Surprise Cosaques, Christmas Crackers 1878. (Image by Getty)

The history of Christmas crackers

A group of worshippers praying in a chapel in Ireland, during the Irish famine, c1848. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A Why do some people call the Irish famine ‘the Great Hunger’?

George Makari examines the history of xenophobia, and the surprising ways in which the term has evolved since the 19th century. (Image by Getty Images)

Stranger danger? Xenophobia’s unexpected history