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Video podcastThe West's enduring fascination with Asia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Regency Masterclass, with Dr Lizzie Rogers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The West's enduring fascination with Asia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns

Robert Burns: 7 facts about the life and work of Scotland's national bard

VideoRegency culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Regency gentleman greets a row of ladies

Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

QuizIntroduction to the Regency. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Johannes Gutenberg examines a page from the moveable type printing press that he invented

Who invented the printing press?

Men in boats on the River Thames survrying swans

General History

Does the Warden of the Swans exist – and does the royal family own all the swans in Britain?

A range of Barbies at a New York toy fair, 2019

Barbie: a forward-thinking and a behind-the-times image of womanhood. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Professor David Carpenter discusses the history of Westminster Abbey

Video podcast | David Carpenter on history of Westminster Abbey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman Forum in Rome, Italy (Photo by Olgacov | Dreamstime.com)

Rome historyEmperors, popes and Renaissance glory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Art, culture and science in the Restoration period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 8Athens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 7Oslo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man in Victorian dress holding a cane jumps on a beach

Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 6Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 5Istanbul. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Valletta at dusk

General History

Malta historyFrom Maltese Falcon to George Cross

Episode 4Madrid. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

THe Crosby Garrett helmet

Why might the definition of treasure be changing? Five things we learnt from our conversation with heritage minister Lord Parkinson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2Prague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1Berlin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

BBC at 100How EastEnders saved the BBC. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

BBC at 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.