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QuizIntroduction to the Regency.

Johannes Gutenberg examines a page from the moveable type printing press that he invented

Who invented the printing press?

Men in boats on the River Thames survrying swans

General History

Does the Warden of the Swans exist – and does the royal family own all the swans in Britain?

A range of Barbies at a New York toy fair, 2019

Barbie: a forward-thinking and a behind-the-times image of womanhood.

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel.

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain.

Professor David Carpenter discusses the history of Westminster Abbey

Video podcast | David Carpenter on history of Westminster Abbey.

Roman Forum in Rome, Italy (Photo by Olgacov | Dreamstime.com)

Rome historyEmperors, popes and Renaissance glory.

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.

Episode 8Athens.

Episode 7Oslo.

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

Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?.

Episode 6Paris.

Episode 5Istanbul.

Valletta at dusk

General History

Malta historyFrom Maltese Falcon to George Cross

Episode 4Madrid.

Episode 3Rome.

THe Crosby Garrett helmet

Why might the definition of treasure be changing? Five things we learnt from our conversation with heritage minister Lord Parkinson.

Episode 2Prague.

Episode 1Berlin.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.