Painting of a European marketplace

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GeorgianvideoWhy is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

GeorgianvideoRidley’s Scott’s Napoleon trailer: a historian reacts

GeorgianvideoWhat should we make of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon?

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OppenheimerIs Nolan perpetuating a historical myth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Simon Schama“Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

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Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the Children's Crusade of 1212, from the Story of the British Nation, Volume 1, by Walter Hutchinson, c1920 (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval

What was the Children’s Crusade, and did it actually happen?

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

Roman

The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Roman

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 6The evil that men do. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Master of his fate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 5The dogs of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Was this ambition?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RomanvideoEt Tu, Brute?What did Caesar say before he died?

Allied troops hide from enemy shelling during the battle of Caen. The town was finally captured after several weeks of intensive fighting. The white markings on their shoulders were later added to the photograph by a censor to hide the name of the battalion. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The battle for Normandy: what happened after D-Day?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British Army tanks are unloaded on to Gold Beach on D-Day

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D-Day quizTest your knowledge of the Normandy Landings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RomanvideoSex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?

William Caxton shows off his new press in Westminster to Edward IV in a 19th-century painting (Photo by Artepics / Alamy Stock Photo)

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How William Caxton printed the first-ever book in English. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paris became a charnel house during the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as shown in this painting by François Dubois (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Catholics vs HuguenotsYour guide to the French Wars of Religion

Illustration by Laurie Avon

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Medieval warfare: five deceptive ways to win a battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A clown, c1970s. The next decade, there would be a panic over "stalker clowns" in the US (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

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Clowns, agoraphobia and kayaks: a history of fear and loathing. 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)

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

Christopher Clark at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Photo by Damien McFadden)

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Christopher Clark“The 1848 revolutions were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

A c1642 portrait of a 12-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, accompanied by a page, likely painted to commemorate his presence at the battle of Edgehill (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Making of a monarch: how the young Charles II endured war, defeat and exile before the Restoration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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