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Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’

Casa Susanna: Storyville,31-01-2023,Members of Casa Susanna's community,Collection of Cindy Sherman,Collection of Cindy Sherman

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

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?

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

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Charles (Josh O'Connor) and Diana (Emma Corrin) in 'The Crown', left; and the real royal couple dancing in Sydney

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

The Serpent Queen stars Samantha Morton as Catherine de' Medici

The Serpent Queen The STARZ drama offers a caricature of the real Catherine de' Medici

Prince Charles in 1969

King Charles III The life of the reigning king

Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958

Queen Elizabeth II 50+ facts about her life and reign

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 How EastEnders saved the BBC

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Episode 8 What can history tell us about its future? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon (Photo by Ollie Upton/HBO)

House of the Dragon The real historical event behind the Game of Thrones prequel

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Hollywood history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

BBC at 100 The Third Programme: a cultural institution

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100 The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough