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Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the TV series 'Poldark'. (Photo by Adrian Rogers)

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Period dramas should not be judged on historical accuracy, say historians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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London’s 7 most memorable lord mayors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

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Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

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History explorer: the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The medieval hilltop village of Vézelay in north central France enjoys a spectacular location. (Photo by Andia/UIG via Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Vézelay, France

Douglas Bader in October 1940. “He was competitive, unruly, foolhardy – but also brilliant, brave and hugely talented,” says David Cameron. (Photo by Fg Off S A Devon/IWM via Getty Images)

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My history hero: David Cameron chooses Douglas Bader (1910–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Horrible Histories Live on Stage: an interview with creator Neal Foster

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"Welcome home, Charlie": Chaplin’s postwar return to London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the central image, leading Fifth Monarchists are executed on 19 January 1661 following the bloody failure of their uprising. Their leader, Thomas Venner, was hanged, drawn and quartered. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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

Emil Zátopek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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

Passengers on board the Wilhelm Gustloff c1939 giving the Nazi salute shortly before leaving Tilbury Docks. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

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The LibraryHolidays with Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Yangguan Museum and a statue of Zhang Qian. (Getty Images)

Ancient Greece

Global encounters of the ancient kind

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Forgotten science: 7 of the strangest scientific theories in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The history of... re-enacting battles

British reserve troops waiting to move up to the forward area during the battle of the Somme, France, 1916. Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Street Mill in Burnley. (Photo by Alamy)

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History explorer: the power of cotton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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On the trail of the Yorks: 8 places associated with Richard III’s family. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The history of the suntan

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Q&AMein Kampf: what happened to Hitler’s money after his death?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bologna, Italy. (Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Bologna, Italy

Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

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9 haunted historic houses

Monument to the Spanish Civil War (Dreamstime)

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Spain’s very international civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Seve Ballesteros. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011)

German soldiers at the battle of the Somme. (Photo by Robert Hunt/Windmill Books/UIG via Getty Images)

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The Somme through German eyes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Books interview with Daniel Todman: "Everything that happened in 1940 isn't somehow down to Winston Churchill". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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