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Members of the royal family at an event marking the centenary of the Royal Air Force. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Opposing the royals: a brief history of republicanism in Britain

Photo of Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Rise of a dictator: how did Hitler gain power and become the führer of Germany?

Youths salute Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler Youth: how the Third Reich used children’s organisations to wage war

Indian soldiers during WWI

First World War

Indians in the trenches

Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

The curious case of Lord Lucan + 10 other mysterious disappearances from history

Policemen from Scotland Yard patrolling at night

Real-life Sherlocks: the detectives of Scotland Yard and their curious cases

Historian Claire Wright (Photo by Susan Papazian)

Fighting for the vote

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

Virus H1N1

Could flu really kill thousands again?

Nellie Bly

Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg

Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

Second World War

The Holocaust orphans

A sultan rides through Istanbul – at its height, the Empire ruled over more than 15 million subjects

General Early Modern

Your guide to the Ottoman empire

Child survivors at Auschwitz

Second World War

A brief history of Auschwitz

Simon de Montfort

10 things you might not know about Simon de Montfort

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

General Early Modern

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?