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Caesar | 5. The dogs of war

The deed is done, but the battle is far from over. In episode five of our new series on Julius...

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Caesar | 3. Master of his fate

The last decade of Julius Caesar’s life was dominated by civil war, his romance with Cleopatra...

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Netflix's The Crown: history and storytelling

Netflix's hit drama The Crown has come to a close after six seasons and 60 episodes, having...

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Boston Tea Party | 1. Tea and taxes

How did tea become such an incendiary issue in late 18th-century Boston? To understand this, we...

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Boston Tea Party: Igniting a revolution | Trailer

On the evening of 16 December 1773, around a hundred men boarded three ships in Boston harbour,...

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Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them

Many might assume that Britain's grand houses were paid for, designed and built solely by men....

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Life of the Week: Mansa Musa

In the list of the world’s all-time wealthiest people, one name regularly tops the charts: Mansa...

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Introducing Life of the Week

We’re making our new 'Life of the Week' series freely available for everyone to enjoy. Every...

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Caesar: Death of a Dictator | Trailer

On the Ides of March, 44 BC, the most famous Roman in history was murdered. Julius Caesar’s...

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Victoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history

How did a severed ear start a war between Britain and Spain in the 18th century? And what has...

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The American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know

How did the Gilded Ages get its name? What caused the explosion of industry at this time? Who...

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Books and war: from James Bond to leaflet bombing

Throughout time, both authors and their readers have gone to war. In that process, the written...

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Medieval manners: social etiquette in the Middle Ages

Medieval people are often portrayed in popular culture as being grubby and smelly, with few...

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Marshal Pétain: Vichy France in the dock

Following its liberation in 1944, France began a reckoning with its years of defeat, occupation...

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1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know

Was 1950s Britain a grim, grey nation, haunted by the spectre of the Second World War, or was it...

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The dangerous road to the Bastille

The French Revolution of 1789 is one of the defining events of world history – but the decades...

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Shakespeare: Past Master | 3. Julius Caesar

Islam Issa charts what the tragic history play tells us about the ancient world – and the...

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Du Fu: China's greatest poet

Writing during the celebrated Tang dynasty, Du Fu is heralded as China's greatest poet, musing on...

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Cities that turbocharged art history

From Renaissance Florence and ancient Babylon to the kingdom of Benin and Heian-era Kyoto, cities...

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