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Inside Bridgerton’s ballrooms . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Berengaria of Navarre: Richard I’s forgotten queen . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Explore Hampton Court Palace with Professor Tracy Borman . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII’s queens . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Your guide to Thomas Cromwell

India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte and Corey Mylchreest as George III (Photo by Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)
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The real history behind Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

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Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

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Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

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Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A portrait of King George III, next to a shackle in the foreground of Buckingham palace.
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Did the British royal family support slavery?

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“Elizabeth was certainly no feminist”: Tracy Borman on the Elizabethans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII
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Anne Boleyn: your guide to the life and death of Henry VIII’s second queen – plus 11 little-known facts

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Week Two: Elizabethan Daily Life, with Professor Tracy Borman . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Week One: The Elizabethan court, with Professor Tracy Borman . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elizabethans quiz – week one . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.