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Living through the Troubles.

A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How Britain stirred the cauldron of conflict in Palestine.

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation

Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald (left) and chancellor Philip Snowden (right) at 10 Downing Street in 1929, two years before they formed a controversial National Government (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Alleged coups and government traitors: conspiracy theories in 20th-century British politics.

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

Memorial DayA brief history

The waxing crescent moon rises over frosty rocks near the small settlement of Sligachan, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Danny Robin's paranormal cold casesA Highlands horror story.

Mountaineering on Everest: everything you want to know.

Junko Tabei and Ang Tsering pictured on the slopes of Everest

Q&AWho was the first woman to climb Everest?

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tenzing NorgayThe Sherpa who first conquered the world's highest mountain.

A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.

EverestThe story of the race to the top of the world.

Patrice Lawrence and Lord Kitchener

My history heroPatrice Lawrence chooses Lord Kitchener.

Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know.

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain.

Everyday life in East Germany.

Prince Charles, aged 4, driving a toy car in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

King Charles IIIA life in pictures

A dish of coronation chicken

Historical recipe: Annie Gray's coronation chicken.

Brooklands.

Danny Robin's paranormal cold casesThe ghost of Brooklands Circuit.

How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain.

Elizabeth II surveys troops in Brisbane, Australia during her 1977 silver jubilee tour. There has been increasing debate about the degree to which documents relating to the royal family should be open to the public (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

The royal family and their right to privacy: who should have access to the records?.

A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe parents who never recovered.

George VI and Elizabeth, the queen consort, talking to men clearing the debris of a bomb site in London, September 1940 (Photo by Topical Press/Getty Images)

King George VI's Nazi dilemma: the men in the royal household who admired Hitler.

The Waco siege: an American tragedy.

Kathrine Swizter.

Kathrine SwitzerThe shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967.

How women were excluded from sport – and fought back.

My history heroChris Hadfield chooses Michael Collins.

The KGB’s secret war on the west.

A protester wearing a star badge at an anti-vaccination rally in Cardiff, 2021. The badge’s design deliberately evokes the star Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied territories during the Second World War.

“Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate”: Richard J Evans on the trouble with comparisons.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

Nuclear apocalypse in Britain.

My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin.