20th Century

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My history hero Jeremy Bowen chooses Vincent Sheean

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American psychiatry: a tortured history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3 Dangerous days . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

Second World War

Ben McIntyre on Colditz: “The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable”

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World Cup history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of the display cabinet where the World Cup was stolen

What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians’ verdict

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

David Dimbleby commands the studio during the May 1997 general election

BBC at 100 Into the digital age

A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

Germany at a crossroads: Nazis, pacifism, and why the lessons of All Quiet on the Western Front still matter today

On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

Max Hastings "If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable"

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Episode 2 Broken ties & a secret pact . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1 Tensions mount . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.