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    Welsh Labour politician Aneurin Bevan making a speech on the freedom of the press at a meeting of the National Council of Civil Liberties at Central Hall, Westminster, London, in 1942. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)
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    My history hero: Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan (1897–1960)

    An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia
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    Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859

    Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)
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    History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

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    Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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    The Library Britain and France: Empires under fire

    Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
    Medieval

    The miracle of Henry VI: how the weak medieval king became a ‘saint’

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    The growing pains of BBC Two

    The inmates' dining hall at the Poplar Poor Law Union workhouse in London, 1903. Though it was widely reviled, the Poor Law would survive another 45 years. (Mary Evans)
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    Living in the shadow of the workhouse

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    The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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    Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life

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    Stuart

    When beans were the food of lust

    The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.
    20th Century

    Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters

    The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)
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    In search of the real Pocahontas

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