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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.

Original rogue heroes of the SAS.

An early Peace People march in Belfast’s Woodvale Park

What was the Peace People movement in Northern Ireland?

Is Eastern Europe disappearing?

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia“The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

The forgotten history of Windrush.