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Julius Caesar in a dark room

History TV and radio in the UK: what’s on our screens this week?

c1952: Queen Elizabeth II with a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scotland. (Photo by Lisa Sheridan/Studio Lisa/Getty Images)

What was Queen Elizabeth II like as a mother?

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, and the real Queen Elizabeth II

Netflix’s The Crown: the real history behind the royal drama

Diana and Charles in Canada, 1986

Charles and Diana: a history of their marriage

American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin: the quiet force behind the March on Washington

Matriarchs of society such as Mrs Caroline Backhouse Astor (pictured played by Donna Murphy in The Gilded Age) employed the rules of calling cards to maintain the social order. (Alison Rosa Cohen © 2021 Heyday Productions, LLC and Universal Television LLC)

The War of the Operas: new money vs old in The Gilded Age

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a “vivid running commentary” on a century of British life

Alicia von Rittberg as Princess Elizabeth in Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming Elizabeth The real history behind the new Tudor drama

J Robert Oppenheimer (left), and Cillian Murphy

Oppenheimer: the real history of the ‘father of the atomic bomb’

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Thomas Seymour (Tom Cullen) and Katherine Parr (Jessica Raine) in Becoming Elizabeth

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(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

The Gallows Pole The true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

Netta holds the Eurovision trophy aloft while singing the winning song for Israel at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest grand final

Eurovision history: from the first competition to the story behind voting blocs

India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte and Corey Mylchreest as George III (Photo by Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)

The real history behind Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The real story of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte: from glittering courts to tragic decline