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

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Attlee’s secret war with Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Indian princes and British Army officers in the Hyderabad contingent polo team, c1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Cricket, curry and cups of tea: India's influence on Victorian Britain

Soviet submarines. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

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When the world didn’t end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Prince of Wales loading a rifle in the Grenadiers, First World War, 1914. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Edward VIII: How war scarred the playboy prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Michael X and the British war on black power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Old Trail Town, a collection of historic western buildings and artifacts, located in Cody, Wyoming. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

The University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford

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The LibraryHistory explorer: The Oxford Martyrs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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December 2017

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My favourite place: Jaipur

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The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The world of the Scythians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The burning of Templars, from ‘De casibus virorum illustrium’ by Giovanni Boccaccio. Found in the collection of the British Library. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Templars: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1267 Treaty of Montgomery: a prince’s hope for the future of Wales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tales of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Ukrainian famine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy. (Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Florence, Italy

West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, following their journey from Southampton Docks. Originally published in ‘Picture Post’, 1956. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

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Clair Wills on immigrants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Italian writer Primo Levi sitting at a desk in his study. Turin, 1981. (Photo by Sergio del GrandeMondadori PortfolioMondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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My history hero: Primo Levi (1919–87). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Addington and Napoleon facing each other across a narrow channel, from a caricature by James Gillray. Illustration from the magazine ‘The Graphic’, 9 July 1881. (Getty Images)

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Britain and France: the best of enemies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

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The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The History Hot 100. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

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The letters that reveal Horatio Nelson’s secrets

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

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Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The wartime wireless and the lost voice of Cyril Lakin

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Arctic Norway

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The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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