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Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Embalmed figure of Jeremy Bentham

“A wax head with his own hair had to suffice”: the horror of Jeremy Bentham’s ‘auto-icon’

Catherine the Great: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American actress Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hayes. (Image by Alamy)

How Georgian and Victorian same-sex couples co-opted marital traditions and made them their own. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Iain Duncan Smith and Robert Peel

My history heroIain Duncan Smith chooses Robert Peel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fess Parker, an American actor, as Davy Crockett

The man in the coonskin cap: your guide to Davy Crockett

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

"An enlightened turn": how medicine (and the vaccination) developed in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroSteve Hackett chooses Thomas Paine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A vessel at sea comes across the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman

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Seven of history's most disturbing ghost ship stories that will haunt your dreams

The race to identify all living creatures. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: the firebrand feminist thinker with a rule-breaking life

Exterior of the White House, Washington, D.C

Who built the White House?

Portrait of George III.

QuizHow well do you know the Georgian period?

Britain’s war on the slave ships: how the Royal Navy policed the Atlantic in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Boston Tea PartyIgniting a revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week fourSlavery and abolition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week threeWar and conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week 2Regency culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Video podcastThe Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US founding father Benjamin Franklin

Q&AWhy was Benjamin Franklin rumoured to be a serial killer?

Two men duelling. The man in foreground holds a smoking gun. The man in the background is falling, one hand to his face, his pistol limp in his hand

Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir? The real story of the maligned Founding Father and 'villain' of Hamilton

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Why does the United States of America celebrate Independence Day on 4 July?

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Your guide to the 1776 American Declaration of Independence

Video podcastThe real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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