Painting of a European marketplace

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Has Russia always played by its own rules?

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Portrait of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

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Q&AWho was the Grand Old Duke of York?

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British identity in 50 documents. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

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Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

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Vichy France: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Berlin’s tumultuous history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and the first Viking king of England (Photo by Getty)

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Greek myths: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bloody Sunday: 50 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

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Munich: the real history behind the new film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, in Munich – The Edge of War

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A martyr and a hero? How Munich – The Edge of War tries to soften Neville Chamberlain’s rotten reputation

Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

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Women of the Rothschild dynasty. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

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Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

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Queen Victoria’s spy network. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of King Louis IX.

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A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

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King George II of Great Britain

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George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

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Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

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The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

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Q&APeace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper?

Outbreak of dance mania

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The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

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A guide to the Seven Years’ War

Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies

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Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures"The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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