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1700-1800

Tit for tat
Acts of vengeance and their consequences – including such ‘triggers’ as the murder of Genghis Khan’s envoys in 1218, the murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972 and the storming of the Golden Temple of Amritsar in 1984, as well as other examples of retribution from Japan, Czechoslovakia and Korea.

Time Traveller's Guide to Napoleon's Empire
All you need to know, from Napoleon's seizure of power in 1799 to his exile in 1815, plus background on the French Revolution.

• Monarchy
  Dynamic timeline that illuminates the lives of the men and women who sat on the English/British throne and the powerful individuals who supported and sometimes fought them.
• Time Traveller's Guide to Stuart England
  All you need to know to survive the filthy, dangerous streets of Civil War and Restoration London and beyond.
• The monarchs we never had
  The death of the heir to the throne has had important consequences throughout British history – sometimes immediately, sometimes obvious only in retrospect.
• The British Slave Trade: A chronology
  From the first British slave trader Sir John Hawkins to the Slavery Abolition Act and US Emancipation Proclamation.
• The Empire Pays Back
  Should the companies and other institutions that profited from the slave trade apologise and pay reparations?
• The Medici: A chronology
  These Florentine bankers led a city-state, occupied the Vatican and married into many powerful European families. They also inspired and supported some of the greatest artists, thinkers and pioneers of the Renaissance.
• The Scots Detective
  This website challenges historical accounts of the Scottish wars of independence, the Reformation, the Act of Union, Scottish exile and the Irish in Scotland (Channel 4 Learning).
• Georgian Underworld
  Looks at the great social upheavals of the age and examines why they came about and what they led to.
• Bow Street Runner
  Dive into the murky underworld of Georgian London to solve mysterious crimes in the tough and unruly Covent Garden of the 1750s.
• The Worst Jobs in History: Georgian jobs
  Life for the personnel in Nelson's navy is particularly horrendous, and the Industrial Revolution produces new employment nightmares for the young, vulnerable and poor.
• The Prince Regent and His Circle: In their own words
  The history, the scandals and the gossip of the Prince Regent, his friends and his foes.
• Matt's Old Masters: Hogarth
  The outstanding figure in artistic life in early Georgian England, the first British painter to achieve international fame.
• The Real Captain Bligh
  William Bligh wasn't the sadistic martinet who provoked the mutiny on the Bounty. Rather he was a brilliant navigator, pioneer of ethnography and thorn in the side of the naval establishment.
• Masters of Darkness: Marquis de Sade
  A free-thinking radical or depraved sex-mad monster?
• Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs
  Goodall examines five momentous turning points in musical history and asks what they mean for us today (Channel 4 Learning).
• Howard Goodall’s Great Dates
  Goodall shows that great pieces of music are not freak accidents of genius but the direct products of their time, place, culture and politics (Channel 4 Learning).
• Cities and disaster
  An examination of the calamities that befell seven cities: London (1666), Lisbon (1755), Chicago (1871), San Francisco (1906), Tokyo/Yokohama (1923), Florence (1966), New Orleans (2005).
• Napoleon
  Military genius and passionate lover, revolutionary and emperor, glorious leader or little dictator?
• Hello Culture
  What is culture and how does the past impact the present? Here is a ‘grid’ of 160 entries that allows users to experience the heyday and remnants of Romanticism.
• Nelson’s Navy
  While ‘rum, sodomy and the lash’ might be the stereotype of life at sea in in the 18th and early 19th century, it is far from the reality.
• Children and war
  The history of child warriors extends from the youths of ancient Sparta and the youngsters below decks in Nelson’s navy to the young people engaged in military activity in the 21st century.
• War against Napoleon
  The facts and figures about the wars fought between Britain and France during 1793-1815, plus the main players and an outline of the war of ideas.
• E=mc2
  From Lavoisier and Faraday to Albert Einstein, find out about the great minds behind the equation.
• 1798 and After
  The social and political history of Ireland from the 1798 Rebellion to partition in 1921 (Channel 4 Learning).

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