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Porthcumo Telegraph Museum, Cornwall

Mikado Maids

A big day in history: Gilbert and Sullivan unveil ‘The Mikado’

Chris Patten, the last governor of colonial Hong Kong, is pictured here receiving the Union Jack flag shortly before Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

The British empire: 10 big questions

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?

Aftermath of the Staplehurst rail crash, a derailment at Staplehurst, Kent in 1865, that killed ten passengers and injured forty. Author Charles Dickens was among the passengers who escaped unscathed. “He spent hours aiding the hurt and dying and extricating the dead,” says Jonathan Grossman. (SSPL/Getty Images)

Dickens on the move

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Corfu 1864 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why were people who died by suicide historically buried at crossroads?

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Ironbridge

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Ancient Egypt through Victorian eyes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How to escape the tower . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c15th-century vellum shows the Squire from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. For Adam Nicolson, the essence of the gentry was “government-through-networking”. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Stories of the gentry

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English novelist Charles Dickens c1860. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Charles Dickens: his life and works . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A postboy drives a mail coach in a contemporary illustration. Soon after their introduction in 1784, coaches were traversing the country at speeds of up to 10mph. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Red Letter Days: 10 milestones in the history of the Post Office

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How far could a person expect to travel in a single day on horseback or in a stagecoach?

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The mourning of Queen Victoria . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.