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An 1812 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson depicts highwaymen in action in the days when travellers made for easy pickings for criminals (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson’s General History

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The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did the Duke of Wellington really call his troops the “scum of the Earth”?

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Video podcast Zack White on discipline in Wellington's armies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Disciplining the “scum of the Earth” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

The real Rob Roy

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Marie Antoinette in her own words . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Romantics: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting shows Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in October 1812. Tens of thousands of his troops perished over the winter months that followed

What if… Napoleon had defeated Russia?

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

Victorian zoos Animal attraction in the 19th century

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Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration depicting the first hot air balloon flight in America, piloted by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1793.

When was the first crossing of the English Channel by air?

Three of the children of Henry VII: Prince Henry; Arthur Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret

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Royal rivalries 10 of the most famous sibling relationships

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’