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A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

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Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

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British 40th Division tanks transporting captured German guns from the battle of Cambrai. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

First World War

5 tanks that changed the course of the First World War

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A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

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In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

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Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

Thomas Asbridge

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Britain’s secret wartime prison. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

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What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

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Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

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