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Landmarks of Berlin

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Berlin historyDark days and bright nights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Orthodox monks (backed by Russia) and Catholic clerics (backed by France) both tried to stake their claim to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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Why did the Crimean War start?

Applying economic pressure and blocking bulky Russian exports helped win the war, says Professor Lambert

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Roger Fenton’s assistant, Marcus Sparling, poses with their mobile ‘Photographic Van’

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Portrayal of the Charge of the Light Brigade

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The Charge of the Light BrigadeWho blundered in the Valley of Death?

Reeta Chakrabarti and Janusz Korczak

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The Queen distributing the Crimea Medal, Horseguards Parade, London, c1850s, (1888).

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The Battle of Sinop.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, 1854. Artist Hayes, Michael Angelo (1820-1877).

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The Crimean WarA timeline of key moments

Soldiers in the Crimean War

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Lord Byron

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Everything you wanted to know about the Romantics

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Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor.

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Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors

The solid gold death mask of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, now held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Photo by Fayed El-Geziry/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

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Mussolini's March on RomeHow Italy became the first fascist state

Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Tales of romanceThe historical love stories behind 5 British castles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroSam Naz chooses Noor Inayat Khan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Love Letter, 1834.

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A painting of Hannibal leading his men into Italy in 218 BC, seated on top a war elephant (Photo by Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo)

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A witch feeds her familiars in this illustration from the 1579 pamphlet about Windsor woman Elizabeth Stile (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

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Photograph of Pauli Murray

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Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

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

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A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from 'Le Petit Parisien', 1891.

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A Japanese tattoo artist at work on a large scale tattoo design on the back of a woman, Japan, circa 1940.

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HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)

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Narvik in contextHow battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain

Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

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Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf and wife of art critic Clive Bell, all of whom were members of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Nancy Astor campaigning

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