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Video podcastLife of the week: the Duke of Wellington. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Maria Theresa: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Engraving of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra doing needlework in the rectory garden.

Did women have good friendships in the Regency era?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mrs Crackenthorpe column and Penelope Featherington in 'Bridgerton'

Was there a real Lady Whistledown? The true stories of Mrs Crackenthorpe, Bridgerton’s scandal sheets and the golden age of gossip

Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington

Bridgerton: the real history explained

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

Video podcastScandals that shocked Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte and Corey Mylchreest as George III (Photo by Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)

The real history behind Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Benjamin Franklin: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benjamin Franklin and the kite experiment

Benjamin Franklin’s greatest inventions – and famous kite experiment

Benjamin Franklin sits at a desk, reading some papers with one hand under his chin

Benjamin Franklin: the Founding Father who saved America

A 19th-century portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron, by English painter Thomas Phillips (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Lady Caroline Lamb: Antonia Fraser on a rule-breaking aristocrat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastLord Byron: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The American Peace Commissioners negotiating the Peace of Paris at the end of the American Revolutionary War: (from left to right) John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and Franklin's grandson William Temple Franklin.

Temple Franklin: the real story of Benjamin Franklin’s grandson

Painting of Lord Byron and his Muse

“Mad, bad and dangerous to know”: the scandalous life of Lord Byron

Lord Byron: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes

Q&AWho was Schinderhannes and why is he known as the ‘German Robin Hood’?

Michael Douglas as American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV+ period drama 'Franklin'

Is Franklin a true story? The real story of Benjamin Franklin and the Franco-American Alliance

Lord Byron: 9 objects that defined the infamous poet's life and story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Clotilda: the last slave ship to America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Margaret Lockwood as Katherine Ferrers

Q&AWere there any real highwaywomen, and did they dress up as men?

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

The Duke of Wellington: “One of Britain’s greatest soldiers, and worst prime ministers”

A portrait of King George III, next to a shackle in the foreground of Buckingham palace.

Did the British royal family support slavery?

The abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.