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Witnesses to the French Revolution
What was the French Revolution like for those who lived through it?
Robespierre & Revolutionary Terror
How did the French Revolution, built on liberty, become ruled by fear?
French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille
What drove a hungry city to storm a fortress?
Origins of the French Revolution
In 18th century France, what turned hunger into uprising, frustration into revolt?
Elizabethan England's Richest Woman: Bess of Hardwick
Why does Bess of Hardwick still fascinate us as her 500th anniversary approaches?
Edmund Halley & His Comet
How did a man who had a comet named after him change science forever?
True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal
How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules?
The Tudors Abroad
What did it mean to be English when Elizabethans were constantly crossing borders?
Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?
Was Anne Boleyn a seductress, a schemer, or something far more radical?
True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre
How did the assassination of a hated royal favourite unleash mob violence?
