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Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&A Has anyone ever died of laughter?

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George III and the art of anatomy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Photo of the American flag

Q&A What was the first ‘Star Spangled Banner’? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The bloody world of Georgian female boxing

Panic ensues in this depiction of the Peterloo Massacre, published in 1819. (The art archive/Getty Images)

Why were there so few casualties at Peterloo?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&A Is the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

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A portrait of Janice Hadlow

Janice Hadlow "The picture of George III’s family is often sad – these are genuinely thwarted lives" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Danish astronomer Ole Romer (1644–1710). (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Q&A Was Thomas Jefferson an atheist?

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William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

History explorer: The English landscape garden . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth

Photo of Chelsea Pensioners

Q&A Could you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?

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Revealed: Jane Austen’s country life

Napoleon in exile

Q&A Why was Napoleon exiled to St Helena?

A caricature of George I

The delightfully dysfunctional Georgians