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Welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse

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History heroAnita Anand chooses Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

Your guide to Egypt’s sun queen Nefertiti

This caricature of those meetings depicts proceedings turning to chaos, thanks to the arrival of Napoleon – freshly escaped from his exile on Elba before 'the cake' (Europe) has even been cut

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Europe after Napoleon: what the Congress of Vienna meant for the coalition powers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant holding the skull of Yorik

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The wisdom of Shakespeare: 5 famous quotes explained. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian

Napoleon's planned invasion of England: what went wrong?

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

20th Century

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

An early Christian standing stone situated in an open field at Gelligaer Common near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. (Getty Images)

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Where history happened: the villages that disappeared. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, as depicted by artist Charles Thévenin

Georgian

Napoleon’s chance: why the French Revolution was Bonaparte's big break

Festival of Britain official programme. The event was held in 1951 on London's South Bank

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The 1951 Festival of Britain: banishing the gloom of postwar Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

20th Century

Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

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In their own words: the team behind Apollo 11 describe the 1969 mission to the Moon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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Neanderthal in the mirror: our changing perceptions of these ancient humans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 12th-century Celtic round tower at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly

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“The power of the Irish over the Britons is great”: Fergal Keane on Britain's Irish roots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stanley Baldwin in the study at Chequers, the PM's official country residence, c1925

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Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A German sailor signals Bismarck during manoeuvres in the western Atlantic, some time before the British gave chase. The maimed battleship sank below the waves on 27 May 1941

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The sinking of the Bismarck: a cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic

Opulent headquarters East India House in London, 1850. From inside this grand building, the East India Company directors oversaw the governance of India and its associated territories (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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1838: A year in the life of the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How Machiavellian was Machiavelli?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s nuclear past: the fallout from the High Explosive Research programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian

The battle of Waterloo: 10 key questions answered

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Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Muslim-Crusader interactions: a clash of civilisations?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four knights hack Thomas Becket to death

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Europe's greatest martyr: how Thomas Becket rose from the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two garden gnomes on grass

Victorian

A brief history of garden gnomes

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5 facts about the history of football

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What are the challenges of telling LGBTQ history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Babies from a nursery are walked in a pram, c1953

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A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, back to back

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‘Two steps behind’: male royal consorts through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

General Modern

The 2008 financial crisis explained

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

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A brief history of changing hairstyles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Entrance to Doo Cave, one of the caves in the Wemyss Caves system. Wemyss Caves are home to the largest collection of Pictish-inscribed symbols in one place. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Discover Fife: 6 fascinating historical places to explore

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