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The George Inn at Norton St Philip

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In search of Britain’s oldest pub

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

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Why we should remember…The 19th amendment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Fern Riddell

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15 minutes of fameFern Riddell chooses Charley Wilson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

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The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

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What was the Marshall Plan?

President Truman, seen here in 1948

Cold War

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Police disperse a mob attacking a Hindu temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the violence of Direct Action Day, 1946

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Why we should remember…Direct Action Day

A portrait of William IV

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Your guide to William IV, the ‘sailor king’

Craig Charles and Muhammad Ali

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My history heroCraig Charles chooses Muhammad Ali. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

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Behind the newsWhy PMs get the push. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops clear damage after the Lynmouth flood disaster of 1952

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Britain’s flood disasters: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A refugee family in a camp in Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947

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Enduring trauma: the legacy of partition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What to read nextThe latest history books reviewed

Painting of the Battle of Blenheim

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The battle of Blenheim: how did the Duke of Marlborough triumph on the Danube?

Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

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Why we should remember…The battle of the Bogside

Historian Leanda de Lisle photographed at her home with her dog Millie

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Leanda de Lisle“Henrietta Maria has been looked at far too much through the male gaze”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

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Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Pompey flees after the battle of Pharsalus

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The battle of Pharsalus: how Julius Caesar defeated Pompey

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

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BBC at 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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15 minutes of fameHakim Adi chooses Alice Kinloch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A brief history of smoking

England's Daley Thompson during the high jump event of the decathlon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Emonton, Canada

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A brief history of the Commonwealth Games

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Sounds of the Sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

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Saint Wilfrid

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15 minutes of fameMarc Morris chooses Saint Wilfrid

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

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A history of science in 10½ objects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

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LeprosyHow has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

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BBC at 100The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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