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Emma Dabiri“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on James Bond“Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

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What was Christmas like in Britain during WW2?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

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From Joe Lewis to Audrey Hepburn: 10 famous faces of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soviet infantrymen charge in a counter offensive during the battle of Moscow, 1941.

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The 1941 battle of Moscow: how successful was Operation Typhoon?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pearl Harbor aftermath: the fallout from the attack. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman slops here chamberpot from a window onto pedestrians in the street below in this woodcut

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Were medieval cities really filthy?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

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The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

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What if…Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

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Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The destroyer USS Shaw explodes in a massive fireball at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The attack led almost immediately to Germany declaring war on America, and so brought Stalin an unexpected ally of colossal potential power, says Laurence Rees. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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OpinionWhy December 1941 was the most important month of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battleship USS California following the attack at Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor: 12 facts about the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet

Unionist leader Edward Carson (centre) and colleagues visit Derry/Londonderry, September 1912 – the month when nearly half a million people signed a “Solemn League and Covenant” to resist home rule

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Resolving the 'Irish Question': 5 key moments on the path to partition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Japanese photograph shows Mitsubishi dive bombers warming up on the deck of a carrier in the Pacific before their attack on Pearl Harbor in the early hours of 7 December 1941. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

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'Britain’s Pearl Harbor': Japan's December 1941 attack on the British colony of Malaya

Still Life of Game Birds, oil on canvas. Birds such as goose, swan and peacock were often on the late medieval festive menu

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The roasts of Christmas past: 5 festive dinners from British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A gathering storm: why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in 1941?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman on a bike cycles in front of a castle

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A real castle for Christmas: 5 places to explore and stay this festive season

Josephine Baker lounges on a tiger skin around the time she starred in La Revue Nègre

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British author Sathnam Sanghera

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Sathnam SangheraBritain's Imperial Legacy: “It was painful to realise how my education had colonised me”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chaucer reading his work to the court of Richard II

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Katherine Swynford: the scandalous duchess and ancestress of royal dynasties

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Klaus Fuchs: the scientist who became the Soviet super spy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare's house in Stratford-Upon-Avon

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A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

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William Hogarth, seen in a self-portrait with his pug

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In late 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong, facing a shortage of water, threw overboard much of their ‘cargo’. The massacre of 133 African people and resulting law case – not for murder, but insurance – focusses attention to the treatment of enslaved people. (Image by Alamy)

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The Zong Massacre: what the dark episode meant for the British slave trade and abolition

A portrait of Russian empress Catherine the Great

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Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac: is Catherine the Great's reputation justified?

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Michael Wood on a pioneer of photojournalism“We should salute a towering figure in the history of photography”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century illustration of a farmer leading a pack animal through the ice and snow

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The surprisingly modern Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pragmatist or heartless? A portrait of the young Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492). The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The power behind the throne: women in the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of Tunisian Jews are rounded up and marched through the streets of Tunis carrying shovels in December 1942

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