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A still from James Cameron's 'Titanic'. (Image by Alamy)
Edwardian

How accurate are the most famous films about Titanic?

Titanic in dry doc before it was launched
Edwardian

Titanic When and how was the ship built?

St Patick depicted in a 13th-century folio
Medieval

The history of St Patrick’s Day traditions – and the importance of the colour green

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20th Century

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians
20th Century

Why we should remember… Bloody Sunday

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school
20th Century

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?

Alanbrooke Hall has long since been demolished, but memories of the alleged poltergeist activity on the sixth floor still trouble Ken, a former resident. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

Paranormal cold case Alanbrooke Hall, Belfast

Ronald Hutton discusses Oliver Cromwell’s early life and career, exploring the brilliance and cruelty of the future Lord Protector. (Image by Getty Images)
Stuart

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
20th Century

Clement Attlee: Labour’s postwar leader

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Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
20th Century

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history. (Image by Steve Sayers)
Medieval

Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)
21st Century

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

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General Modern

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)
20th Century

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?', 1774. (Photo by Getty Images)
General Modern

Britain and the slave trade

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