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Revealed: Jane Austen's country life

Brazil: where sport and politics have always mixed.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Saul David

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

The LibraryFirst ladies of art: three trailblazing female artists from history.

Famous people in profile: Charlie Chaplin

Alfred Hitchcock greets a crowd

10 facts about… Alfred Hitchcock

American actor and singer Howard Keel records 'Kiss Me Kate' with his co-star Patricia Morrison, 1964. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The growing pains of BBC Two.

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

In search of the real Pocahontas.

First World War

Behind the scenes of new First World War drama The Crimson Field

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980).

Cold War spies and friendship through the ages.

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

The LibraryD-Day for God?.

Napoleon's formative years and great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Historian at the Movies: The Monuments Men reviewed.

BBC History Magazine

Top 10 History Extra podcasts of 2013

Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorerExtravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace.

BBC History Magazine

Historian at the Movies: The Railway Man reviewed

Behind the scenes of the BBC’s swashbuckling new series The Musketeers

Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed.

Britain in 1914 and Jesus in history.

Is Blackadder bad for First World War history?.

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600.

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts.

Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854.

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room.

Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed.

BBC History Magazine

Last living British person born in 1800s dies

BBC History Magazine

Army of volunteers needed to investigate vulnerable buildings