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Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history

The Brontës and a revolutionary artist

An illustration of the Georgian underclass

The power of the Georgian underclass

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama's portraits of a nation

Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch

A mob sets fire to Newgate Prison during the Gordon Riots

Taxing Catholics: how one Georgian government targeted a religious community

A brief history of graffiti and creativity

10 dangers of Georgian London

Children running down a street

Q&AWhy do we say ‘run amok’?

In pictures: kings and queens through history

Gas Street Basin canal

History explorer: the rise of the canals

Regency scandal and the history of canals

Q&AWhy didn't Canada join the colonies in the American Revolutionary War?

The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo

Why Waterloo fires our imaginations

Denis Dighton's painting shows the defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard at Waterloo

10 moments that decided the Waterloo campaign

Corfu: a Greek island getaway that owes much of its popularity to the Venetians. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Corfu, Greece

Waterloo 200 special

James Watt: your guide to the pioneer of steam engine technology

Waterloo: what was the battle like for Wellington’s Redcoats?

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature

Jane Austen

My history heroJane Austen (1775–1817)

Female warriors from Benin

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

Actors in a staging of Shakepeare's 'Macbeth'

Q&AWhy don't actors refer to the Shakespeare play Macbeth by name?

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

William Hogarth

My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

An engraving of Admiral Lord Nelson

Q&AWhy do we say ‘turn a blind eye’?

Debating British monarchy

Napoleon’s surrender: letter begging Prince Regent for mercy after Waterloo defeat to go on show in Windsor

View of a sham fight on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, 1814

The year when fear of Napoleon stalked the land