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Sir Nicholas Winton

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The ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children from the Nazis

American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

Tension in the Middle East and populist presidents: what the world was like 100 years ago

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Auschwitz and the Holocaust: 5 podcasts to listen to

Children in Auschwitz

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Orphans of the Holocaust: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors

Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama

German prisoners of war

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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

Jews stand with hands up before German soldiers

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The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Auschwitz volunteer

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in 1961

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Forgotten voices: the history behind Holocaust Memorial Day

Illustation of a pope

Holy smoke, antipopes and power struggles: a guide to popes and the papacy

A still from Sam Mendes film '1917'

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“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Deer hunt, 15th century, workshop of the Bedford Breviary. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval myths

An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

A monk and his mistress

Monks behaving badly