Persuasion. Netflix’s 2022 adaptation of Jane Austen’s final completed novel was released on 15 July – and it’s not a traditional take on the Regency romance. Read historian Dr Lizzie Rogers’s review of the film here.

On 20 July 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Count von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, an act for which he has long been honoured in his homeland, first in West Germany and later in the unified nation. Read more about why we should remember this event in this article by author Mary Fulbrook.

American Gothic. “All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow,” reflected Grant Wood in 1936. And – whether bovine-inspired or not – arguably none of his ideas have been as good, nor had such an impact, as his 1930 work American Gothic. Dubbed the US answer to Mona Lisa, American Gothic is arguably one of the most parodied artworks in the world, lampooned in films such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and even starring in an episode of The Simpsons. But what is it about this painting that has captured our imaginations for nearly a century? Learn more about the secrets of the painting in this BBC History Revealed article

Emus. In one of the more extreme displays of animal control likely to be seen, a machine gun unit was sent to cull the flightless birds in the Australian Outback in the early 1930s. As writer Jonny Wilkes explores in this article, however, the army severely underestimated its enemy…

Jesse Owens. Actor, author and TV presenter Ross Kemp recently chose Jesse Owens as part of our history hero series. Commenting on what made him an inspiration, he told us, “[Owens] absolutely never, ever gave up – whatever the odds, whatever prejudices he was confronted with.” Read more about Kemp’s thoughts on Owen in our interview here.