20th Century

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A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

Memorial Day When was the first, and who founded the US national holiday?

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

First World War

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

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Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

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Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

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Netta holds the Eurovision trophy aloft while singing the winning song for Israel at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest grand final

Eurovision history: from the first competition to the story behind voting blocs

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Coco Chanel in Paris, 1929

Why we should remember… How Chanel No 5 revolutionised the beauty business

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

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Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember… Target Zero Day

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