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Georgian

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

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

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Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas as we know it today?

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

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

Prince Charles in 1969
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Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958
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BBC at 100 How EastEnders saved the BBC

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20th Century

BBC at 100 The Third Programme: a cultural institution

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BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

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20th Century

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

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