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Alphonse de Neuville's 1880 painting 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift'. The battle was to become a "supreme symbol of imperial heroism". (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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The battle of Rorke's Drift: a stand still clad in the "myths of empire". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Supporters of Donald Trump protest in Pennsylvania as the state’s electoral college casts its votes, December 2020

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The constitutional crisis behind 2021's presidential transition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

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The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history's most dangerous diseases. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

General Modern

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

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Victoria the warrior queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter

Victorian

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

Félix Kir in 1947, when he was the mayor of Dijon

Second World War

History heroSimon Farnaby chooses Félix Kir (1876–1968)

Extract from Domesday Book.

Norman

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

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"Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?" Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agatha Christie

20th Century

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

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Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

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"Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history": Robert Tombs on Britain's complex relationship with Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Tudor

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen?

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Georgian

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

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Georgian Britain: sex in high places. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.

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Think pieceOur dangerous devotion to the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill on roller skates

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How the roller skating craze caught Churchill. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

First World War

Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

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Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

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The love lives of medieval queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Habsburg dynasty: Maria Theresa, her husband Francis I

Medieval

The Habsburgs: the dynasty that wouldn’t die

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Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Margaret Macmillan

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"To destroy a library is to erase part of the cultural memory of humankind": Margaret MacMillan on war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Qing dynasty emperor Kangxi

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The voices of China: 5 perspectives on an extraordinary past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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2020: the historians’ verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway. (Images by Getty)

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Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings' world from 5 perspectives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marble bust of Nero

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Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Canterbury Cathedral

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How Thomas Becket's feud with Henry II led to murder. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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