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The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Art, culture and science in the Restoration period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 8Athens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 7Oslo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man in Victorian dress holding a cane jumps on a beach

Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 6Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 5Istanbul. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Valletta at dusk

General History

Malta historyFrom Maltese Falcon to George Cross

Episode 4Madrid. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

THe Crosby Garrett helmet

Why might the definition of treasure be changing? Five things we learnt from our conversation with heritage minister Lord Parkinson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2Prague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1Berlin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

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

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)

BBC at 100How EastEnders saved the BBC. 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 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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 100Sounds of the Sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The life and death of Elvis Presley

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

Q&AWho wrote the first thesaurus?

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

"A useful time-capsule of Georgian life": Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

What great paintings sayThe Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

13 remarkable moments in the history of the Oscars

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

Q&AHow did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Neil MacGregor"We decide for ourselves who we think we are – and museums are central to that". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emily Soldene, actress, writer and rebel

Emily Soldene: actress, writer, rebel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.