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    August 2017

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    Night view of people jammed into Times Square, New York, celebrating the end of the war in Europe. (Photo by Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty
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    Was 1945 the world’s zero?

    Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele
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    The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

    A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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    The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story

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    My favourite place: Arctic Norway

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

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    Prince of Darkness?

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    The Sexual Offences Act: a gay revolution?

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    An illustration of a public execution at Newgate, London, late 18th century. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    The Library A deadly obsession in Victorian London

    Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)
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