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What are Henry VIII powers?

The Ukrainian famine.

West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, following their journey from Southampton Docks. Originally published in ‘Picture Post’, 1956. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

Clair Wills on immigrants.

Addington and Napoleon facing each other across a narrow channel, from a caricature by James Gillray. Illustration from the magazine ‘The Graphic’, 9 July 1881. (Getty Images)

Britain and France: the best of enemies.

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

Queen Victoria behind closed doors.

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story.

Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations.

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home.

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

My favourite place: Florence

The White House, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

QuizHow much do you know about US presidents?.

Professor Ronald Hutton © Jeni Nott

Witchcraft through the ages.

Woodcut of a meal shared at a witches' Sabbath. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Ronald Hutton on the Witch.

Icelandic murder mystery.

Hannibal’s war elephants are defeated at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. (AKG)

How Hannibal beat the Alps but couldn't beat Rome.

China in World War Two.

The Koh-i-Noor.

The lost objects of South Asia.

Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history.

Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli

Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest triumphs and disasters

The LibraryVoices of the Cold War.

My history heroNick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC).

The LibraryFemale flyers in Nazi Germany.

The big question: Is Africa a prisoner of its past?.

Austen’s influences: Lucy Worsley on the author’s life and work.

How did Henry VII spend his money?.

The USS Liberty arriving for repairs following the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor torpedo boats

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?.

Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto and a mountain in the background

ExploreKyoto: Japan’s city of gardens and geishas.