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Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion.

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold.

The front cover of a 1924 edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

Beyond the Hitler diaries.

My favourite historical places: Dr Marc Morris

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed.

Khudadad Khan

My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971).

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600.

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?.

Ed Morrison with Nelson Mandela. (Image: Ed Morrison)

When I met Mandela: 1995 Rugby World Cup final

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Elaine Farrell

Renewed debate over battle of Hastings location

Nelson and Winnie Mandela days after his release, 1990. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis)

Nelson Mandela: “a symbol of the struggle against racism”.

Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Julie Barrau

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854.

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory.

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room.

"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bernard Montgomery.

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?.

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War.

John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Was JFK a good president?.

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Joanna Innes

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Professor Richard Alston

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror.

The other Elizabethan England.