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Animals that changed us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view over Yaoundé, Cameroon

Period

My favourite place: Yaoundé, Cameroon

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Big History Survey

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Britain on the edge. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Carbonniere Tower

20th Century

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

The Charles II Royal Oak

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ExploreCharles II's great escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Simon Schama.

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Books interview: Simon Schama. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

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Black faces of Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

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The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The history of sleep. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

20th Century

Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

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Drinking history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The Coventry Blitz – Q&A with historian Frederick Taylor

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Cold War

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

Gertrude Bell. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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My history hero: Gertrude Bell (1868–1926). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)

20th Century

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

A brooch commemorating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Queen Victoria is surrounded by a gold frame, ribbons and laces. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Victorian shadow over the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The red dawn: the October Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

El Alamein battle in the Libyan desert, c1942. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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El Alamein: the line in the sand. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian David Starkey.

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Starkey on the Reformation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

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Heaven… on Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)

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History Explorer: Opera in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

General History

10 weird things that have happened in November

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The search for King Arthur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Living with the Gods. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

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My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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