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

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

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

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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

Emily Soldene, actress, writer and rebel

Emily Soldene: actress, writer, rebel

Lithograph portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard

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

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School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?

The Beatles pictured in 1969

The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain

Three medieval carol singers, image dated 1911

Christmas carols: the history behind 9 festive favourites

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Michael Wood on James Bond “Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century illustration of a farmer leading a pack animal through the ice and snow

The surprisingly modern Middle Ages

Progressive potter: Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95). As well as pioneering new types of pottery, he also imbued his work with political radicalism. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Josiah Wedgwood: the radical father of English pottery

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3 curious medieval ghost stories

Ira Aldridge. (Granger, NYC/Alamy Stock Photo)

Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello