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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

Programme Name: Back in Time for The Corner Shop - TX: 01/03/2020 - Episode: 1920s-1940s (No. 2 - 1920s-1940s) - Picture Shows: with The Arden Family Polly Russell, Sara Cox - (C) Wall to Wall Media Ltd - Photographer: Paul Husband

History TV and radio: what’s on in February 2020?

In the 1960s, Antony Armstrong-Jones and Princess Margaret made one of the country’s most exciting, glamorous couples. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret: why did their marriage break down?

Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (Image by Wall to Wall Media/Laurence Turnbull)

Confronting Holocaust denial: “History is more of a battleground now than ever” says David Baddiel

The Battle of Bunker Hill

From Scots Highlanders to German soldiers: the Europeans who fought on both sides of the War of American Independence

Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama

Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?

Olivia Colman plays Elizabeth II

Netflix’s The Crown: the real history behind the series

The opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)

“A wonder of the world”: Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition at the famous Crystal Palace

Programme Name: The Trial of Christine Keeler - TX: n/a - Episode: Ep 2 (No. 2) - Picture Shows: Stephen Ward (JAMES NORTON) - (C) Ecosse Films - Photographer: Joss Barratt

“Somewhere in between exploitation and empowerment”: James Norton on society osteopath Stephen Ward

The Trial of Christine Keeler. (Photo by BBC)

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies: the women at the heart of the Profumo Affair

Mandy Rice-Davies (left) and Christine Keeler

Notes on a scandal: revisiting the Profumo Affair

Ragnar Lothbrok. (Illustration by Georgie Gozem for BBC History Magazine)

Ragnar Lothbrok: the legend of the immortal Viking and his sons

Princess Margaret attends the premiere of Captain Horatio Hornblower, Leicester Square, 1951. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Getty Images)

Princess Margaret: from glamorous royal to a slide into tragedy

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Prince Charles and Camilla: a history of their romance