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The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.

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Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Men Who United the States

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

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In search of the real Pocahontas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Captain Scott's 'lost' Antarctic pictures saved

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Win a pair of tickets to Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I & II, including dinner and overnight stay in a boutique hotel

A view of Þingvellir National Park in western Iceland. It was here, in AD 930, that Viking settlers established the first pan-Icelandic assembly – possibly the oldest parliamentary body in the world. (© Dreamstime)

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Vikings: A land without kings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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'Lawrence of Arabia's saddlebag' to go on display

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

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The hidden lives of Henry VIII's six wives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy’s The Apocryphal Napoleon imagined what would have happened if the emperor had conquered Russia in 1812 instead of being defeated at Moscow. In this painting, Napoleon retreats from Moscow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The history essay: the past that never was. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by: Carl Simon/United Archives/UIG via Getty Images)

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How the Vikings ruled the waves. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Juliet Gardiner for BBC History Magazine

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History explorer: the Second World War home front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Has the real Sherlock Holmes been deduced?

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Cold War spies and friendship through the ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tony Benn: how will history remember the Labour stalwart?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Complex Crimea: the history behind the relationship between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea

A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, c1796. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Books interview with Michael Broers: "You don't have to make up myths about Napoleon's youth – just look at his letters to see evidence that he was a great leader". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of survivors from the Long March after their arrival in Shenxi in 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The LibraryMao: the legend of the Long March. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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March 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine out now

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A brief history of home ownership in Britain

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

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

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“Being in a prison camp was better than going to a British boarding school”: child hostage of Japanese in WW2 reflects on his experience. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Journalist Ruth First, pictured right, at Anti-Apartheid Movement's freedom day rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1965. Also pictured are actor Patrick Wymark (left) and Bishop Reeves (middle). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Ruth First (1925-82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Alexander Broadie, photographed in the Hungarian Museum. (Photographer: Jeremy Sutton)

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History explorer: The Scottish Enlightenment

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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The LibraryD-Day for God?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Napoleon's formative years and great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

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“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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