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A 12-year-old boy with a large bruise on his face ‘pulls threads’ in a New York sweatshop

The 19th-century slums of New York

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Manan Ahmed Asif

How Hindustan became India . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

Illustration of the man in the iron mask standing by the window of his cell and guarded by two musketeers

Unmasking the ‘man in the iron mask’: do we know the identity of the famous prisoner?

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Saul Dubow responds to listener questions on Victorian Britain’s bitter conflict with two southern African republics. (Image by Getty Images)

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

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Victorian singer, performer and entrepreneur Emily Soldene

Adventures of a Victorian actor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration of the French colonial army departing to fight under Colonel Marchand

What if... Britain and France went to war during the 1898 Fashoda Incident? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC/See-Saw Films/Nick Wall

“A dead whale or a stove boat”: whaling in the 19th century

Photo of a man on a penny-farthing

Q&A How dangerous was the penny-farthing?

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Richard Broome explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians after the arrival of white settlers in the 1780s. (Image by Getty Images)

Aboriginal Australians: a modern history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US secretary of state William Seward (seated left) signs the agreement to buy Alaska from Russia in 1867

America’s hidden empire: the USA’s forgotten imperial expansion

The Statue of Liberty against a blue sky

Q&A Was the Statue of Liberty designed specifically for the United States?

Japanese boats approaching a 'black ship' of US Commodore Matthew C Perry. His arrival in Japan in 1853 forcibly introduced the modern west to the semi-self-isolated island nation (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

From Meiji to modernity: how Japan reinvented itself through the 20th century

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Food on a platter

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