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20th Century

Steamboat Willie, a mouse at the wheel

Cartoon century: a history of 100 years of Disney.

Disney at 100.

Weimar Germany: everything you wanted to know.

Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes

How batteries powered the 20th century.

Psychoanalysing President Wilson.

The Huxleys: how one family shaped our view of nature.

Irsraeli Prime Minister Golda Meir sits at a desk, with one arm on the table

Israel’s Iron Lady: the real story of Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur War

The Cultural Revolution: a Chinese catastrophe.

An Indian soldier keeps watch in a British trench, c1916

The British empire in 1923: the story of the imperial project's territorial height

One day in the British empire.

Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting.

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a "vivid running commentary" on a century of British life

A graphic of a detective looking through a magnifying glass at an old fountain pen with a skull on the nib.

The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain

When poison pen letters caused chaos.

Could WW1 have ended in 1916?.

Spanish flu: everything you wanted to know.

Great Reputations: Gandhi.

c1880, the Paris rugby team.

When Vichy France banned rugby

The secret club for radical New York women.

My history heroAshley John-Baptiste chooses Walter Tull

Tokyo’s devastating 1923 earthquake.

Swathes of Tokyo lie in ruins after the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923

The Great Kantō earthquake: a 1923 disaster that left Tokyo in ruins

On the trail of a Nazi war criminal.

How did empire shape modern Britain?.

What was the March on Washington?

Martin Luther King speaks in front of microphones, during the March on Washtington

"I Have A Dream": the speech that America couldn’t ignore

The miners’ strike: a view from the ground.

Britain’s love affair with the NHS.

Learning disabilities: an overlooked history.