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US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

British troops learn to swim in full kit on a training course in May 1944. "A blind man could see something big was about to happen," said one soldier. (Image by Getty Archives)

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The Library D-day: why the training was deadlier than the assault

Looking out across the Channel, shell craters pockmark Pointe du Hoc – a German artillery position seized by US Rangers. The promontory is one of many reminders of D-Day along the Normandy coastline. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Library History Explorer: D-Day beaches

Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings, 6 June 1944. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Your guide to D-Day: what happened, how many casualties were there, and what did it accomplish?

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

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After VE Day: The war without an end

A portrait of Queen Victoria, who during her reign curbed the use of the title HRH (His or Her Royal Highness) by restricting it to children of a sovereign (of either gender) and grandchildren of a sovereign (in the male line). (Photo by Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo)

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In profile: the life and death of Marie Antoinette

Notre Dame of Paris at first light (Photo by Captblack76-Dreamstime.com)

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Flames and smoke are seen billowing from the roof at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, 15 April 2019. Yet despite the devastation, the fire is “not the worst chapter in its 850-year history”, argues Dr Emily Guerry. (Patrick Anidjar/AFP/Getty Images)

Notre-Dame fire “not the worst chapter in its 850-year history”

Notre-Dame cathedral, which dates back to 1163. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

Notre-Dame cathedral: 10 historical facts

Melvyn Bragg speaks to the History Extra podcast about the 12th-century love story of Heloise and Abelard. (Photo by Awakening/Getty Images)

Melvyn Bragg on Heloise and Abelard

A bust of Charlemagne at the exhibition "Charlemagne: Power, Art, Treasures" (in German: "Karl der Grosse: Macht, Kunst, Schaetze") during the press day on June 18, 2014 in Aachen, Germany. The three-part exhibition is among the biggest events this year commemorating the 1200th anniversary of Charlemagne's death. Charlemagne, also called Charles the Great, was the first pan-western European emperor since the collapse of the Roman Empire and ruled over territories that include modern-day France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and northern Italy. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

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How to carry off a great hoax

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Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?