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    Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle. (Photo by BBC/Douglas Road Productions/Carlton Dixon)
    Period

    History TV and radio: what’s on next week? (16–22 February 2019)

    Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle. (Image Credit: BBC/Douglas Road Productions/Carlton Dixon)
    20th Century

    “A platform to ask ‘was it really like that?’”: Sir Lenny Henry on new Windrush drama

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    Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family. (Image Credit: BBC/Wall to Wall Media/Jack Coathupe)
    Medieval

    Danny Dyer is “making people think again” about history, say historians

    Christmas historical TV (clockwise): The Crown, Mindhunter, Vikings and The Long Song. (Images Netflix/BBC)
    20th Century

    12 historical series to watch this Christmas

    Napoleon Bonaparte, published in London, 1909. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
    Georgian

    Napoleon Bonaparte: facts about his life, death and career

    Actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in the film 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 1938. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
    Medieval

    Robin Hood: 3 films

    British author Bernard Cornwell, author of 'The Last Kingdom' and 'Sharpe' series. (Photo by Daniel Sorabji via Getty Images)
    Anglo-Saxon

    Bernard Cornwell on writing historical fiction and his blockbuster series The Last Kingdom: your questions answered

    Bernard Cornwell. (Photo by Felix Clay)
    Anglo-Saxon

    Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom

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    6th August 1965: A scene from 'Mission to the Unknown', an episode of the popular British television sci-fi series 'Doctor Who', shows a meeting in the Dalek city on Kembel, 6th August 1965. Representatives of the seven galaxies meet and approve the Daleks' plan to conquer Earth.(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Doctor Who through the ages

    Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of "over-tourism” as visitors flock to the area to visit the show's scenic filming locations, tourism chiefs have warned. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen/Mike Hogan)
    General Modern

    The ‘Poldark effect’ and 7 other historical TV shows that have tourists flocking to Britain

    Alias Grace. (Photo by Jan Thijs/Netflix)
    20th Century

    14 of the best historical TV shows on Netflix

    Ross Poldark in London in the BBC's drama. The capital city was described in contemporary magazines and newspapers as the "vortex of dissipation", says Hannah Greig. (Image Credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)
    Georgian

    From politics to pleasure gardens: the real history behind Poldark’s 18th-century London

    Actor William Gillette playing the detective Sherlock Holmes. (Photo by Gillette/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)
    Victorian

    11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes

    Young women labour on a farm during the First World War. The radio series Home Front explores life in Britain during the conflict. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
    First World War

    Sanitising the past: should historical drama reflect modern sensibilities?

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