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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?

An 1812 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson depicts highwaymen in action in the days when travellers made for easy pickings for criminals (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson's General History. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did the Duke of Wellington really call his troops the “scum of the Earth”?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastZack White on discipline in Wellington's armies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

The real Rob Roy

Marie Antoinette in her own words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A painting shows Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in October 1812. Tens of thousands of his troops perished over the winter months that followed

What if…Napoleon had defeated Russia?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration depicting the first hot air balloon flight in America, piloted by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1793.

When was the first crossing of the English Channel by air?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Three of the children of Henry VII: Prince Henry; Arthur Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret

Royal rivalries10 of the most famous sibling relationships. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the 'worst pirate of all time'

A painting of Marie Antoinette in 1775

How Marie Antoinette waged a battle for survival. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

A brief history of Boxing Day

The life and death of Marie Antoinette: everything you need to know about the last queen of France

The House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration

Your guide toThe South Sea Bubble

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

Historical recipeBakewell pudding

Sly cakes (Picture by Sam Nott)

Historical recipeSly cakes

A mutineer in the family. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two-Penny Whist, published January 11, 1796, James Gillray (English, 1756-1815), published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818), England, Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper, 231 × 334 mm (image), 247 × 350 mm (plate), 270 × 384 mm (sheet). (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

15 minutes of fameHannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.