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Jane Austen’s passion for fashion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Great Reputations: Napoleon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A modern painting of the battle of Long Island

What if…the Continental Army had not escaped after the battle of Long Island?

Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century – houses and people walking past.

Recaptive Number 11,407Piecing together the life of a freed slave

William Blake – black and white engraving

"In an inclusive public culture, Blake’s is a great, passionate human voice"Michael Wood on William Blake and Glastonbury

A painted portrait of William Blake

William BlakeRomantic visionary

A portrait of Chevalier d’Éon presenting as a woma

Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy

Why is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

Ridley’s Scott’s Napoleon trailer: a historian reacts

What should we make of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon?

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of Napoleon.

Napoleonic Wars podcast episodes

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

The myth and memory of Waterloo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Duke of Cumberland leans awat from two ghostly men, wearing white robes and wielding razor blades, as smoke rises around them

Royals on the stand: how Queen Charlotte’s son the Duke of Cumberland faced down a libel scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

The Gallows PoleThe true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Inside debtors’ prisons: what life was like for people jailed in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

India Amarteifio as Young Queen Charlotte, Corey Mylchreest as Young King George in episode 3 of 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'.

QuizCould You Make It Through A London Season In The Regency Era?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The real story of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte: from glittering courts to tragic decline

Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, (1796-1817), was the only daughter of George IV. Engraving by Henry Thomas Ryall (English, 1811-1867), after an original painting by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Princess Charlotte of Wales: the original people's princess

La Belle Assemblee - British women's magazine published 1806-1837, founded by John Bell (1745-1831), now best known for its Regency era fashion plates from "Fashions and Fashion Plates 1800-1900", by James Laver. [Penguin Books Limited, London and New York, 1943]. Artist Unknown.

Was the Regency era a good time to be a woman?The truth not seen in Bridgerton

A painting depicts Frederica, the bride- to-be of Frederick, Duke of York, meeting in-laws George III and Queen Charlotte for the first time

The scandals that rocked Queen Charlotte's court

India Amarteifio as young Queen Charlotte in episode 1 of 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'.

Royal enlightenmentThe intellectual life of Queen Charlotte. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Charlotte: real history behind the new Bridgerton series. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James Gillray's A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion

How did caricaturist James Gillray satirically take down the Prince Regent?