Buzz Aldrin Poses next To The U.S. flag On Moon

American history

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

20th Century

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

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Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

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The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

Cold War

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War

Victorian

Why we should remember…The Amnesty Act of 1872

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From running marathons to working the nightshift: 8 surprising things women were banned from doing through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A vintage photo of the RMS Titantic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912

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Your history guide to RMS Titanic, plus 12 fascinating facts about the disaster

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A cartoon published by Benjamin Franklin c1770 urging the colonies to unite and resist British rule. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

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United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

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What if…George III hadn't 'lost' the colonies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.

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Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women?

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President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

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“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Flora MacDonald, who found fame as a Jacobite heroine sailing Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety

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Who was Flora MacDonald?

Illustration showing a scene from the Battle of Moore's Creek

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A photograph of Al Capone, in a suit, looking into the camera

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Your guide to the Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997

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Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Actress Vesta Tilley poses with a bicycle while dressed in male uniform

General History

Drag kings: a brief history of male impersonators

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Mrs Caroline Backhouse Astor

Victorian

Mrs Astor and the Four Hundred

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Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets

Victorian

Who were the tycoons of the Gilded Age? Meet the ruthless 'robber barons' who made millions

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Victorian

The Gilded Age preview: “Entry into a world that really hasn't been covered on television before”

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