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Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Manchester dog show, c1909

The surprising history of Victorian dog shows. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian leisure | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week two quiz: leisure in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frozen Charlotte dolls: the Victorian Barbie

Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How we found our bearings: the origins of the four compass points. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gladiator tales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

10 November

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damien Lewis as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Thomas Cromwell on screen: is Wolf Hall the best depiction of the Tudor statesman?

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

First World War

Armistice Day: what does it commemorate? Why are poppies worn? Plus 4 more things you need to know

Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastHow Stalin won WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How Stalin won WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why we should remember peasants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Venerable Bede: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

General History

6 shocking presidential scandals that rocked the White House: from the Petticoat Affair to Clinton-Lewinsky

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

General History

Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

Week one quiz: Victorian life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

General History

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

Abraham Lincoln

How Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What is the greatest historical movie of all time

General History

What is the best historical movie of all time? Vote now!

Victorian life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that "slum-dwellers were not all very dirty - or, at least, they didn't choose to be". (Photo by Getty Images)

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were 'happy'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?