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Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Victorian

Victorian zoos: animal attraction in the 19th century

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.
Victorian

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)
20th Century

BBC at 100 How EastEnders saved the BBC

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Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958
20th Century

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)
20th Century

BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)
20th Century

BBC at 100 Mirroring Multicultural Britain

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General Modern

The life and death of Elvis Presley

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus
Ancient Greece

Q&A Who wrote the first thesaurus?

A stained glass portrait of Dr Samuel Johnson in 17 Gough Square, London Inns court c1989.
Georgian

“A useful time-capsule of Georgian life”: Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary

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The Arnolfini portrait painting – oil on wood – appears to depict a wealthy couple holding hands in a domestic setting, the bed perhaps indicating that they are in a bedchamber
Renaissance

What great paintings say The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434

The Floralia, an ancient Roman celebration of fertility and nature that took place around early May
Medieval

What is the history behind May Day and why do we celebrate it?

The 30th Annual Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1958. (Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
20th Century

13 remarkable moments in the history of the Oscars

Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton
General Early Modern

Q&A How did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?

Neil MacGregor is a broadcaster, author and former director of the British Museum
General Modern

Neil MacGregor "We decide for ourselves who we think we are – and museums are central to that"

Louis Wain, c1900, with one of his pet cats. Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images)
General Modern

Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends

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