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Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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1966: when the swing turned sour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British gunners busily engaged in putting over a curtain barrage. Somme campaign, France, 1916. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Somme soldiers’ stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The four candidates for the Labour leadership taking part in a hustings in The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, in July 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. From left: Liz Kendall; Andy Burnham; Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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The historians' view: What does the future hold for the Labour party?

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

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Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Was Sarah Guppy the real inventor of the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

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The most popular historical figures you've (probably) never heard of

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August 2016

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History’s most fascinating muses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

The Mar Elian Catholic monastery burnt by Islamic State militants in 2016. (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)

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History under attack: the destruction of antiquities in the Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. (Photo by Getty Images)

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History explorerThe Second Barons’ War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryThe Holocaust on stage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gold medallion of Constantius I, from the mint of Trier. It depicts Constantius celebrating his victory over Alectus in AD 296. Constantius is shown on a horse at the gates of London, welcomed by Britannia. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The LibraryThe first British Empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

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There was more to the 80s than Maggie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

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Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

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Writing history in the 21st century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Homer c850 BC. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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“We are all Trojans...”: Homer’s poetic legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle for the US Constitution: how the 14th Amendment is under threat

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Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

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My favourite place: Kathmandu

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July 2016

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Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

Illustration by Arthur Rackham to the play ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ by William Shakespeare. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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

Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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When Britain tamed ‘superman’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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