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Nancy Astor campaigning

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won.

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

Edward VIIA guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

Fleeing revolution: Russian exiles in Paris.

A composite image showing the Edwardians

The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

How FDR transformed the US presidency.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

The Great Unrest: what caused the industrial action of 1911–14?.

Weaponising food in the Third Reich.

ConspiracyDid Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot and George Meeker, 1932.

QuizHow well do you know the silent movie era?.

A montage of Adolf Hitler and a purple starry sky

Second World War

ConspiracyDid Hitler escape from his bunker and live in Argentina after WW2?

Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement.

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America.

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?.

Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?.

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

Second World War

Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon.

Conrad Nagel and Dorothy Dalton in movie still from Fool's Paradise, 1921.

Hollywood in the 1920s: stars, scandals and the end of silent films

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire.

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing.

How ballroom dancing gripped Britain.

Inside Germany’s postwar prisons.

Q&AWhy did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

Historical cold casesThe mystery of the vanishing widow.

The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know.

The British Commonwealth of Nations - Together Poster (Photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we should remember…The Statute of Westminster

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS.

The hammer and sickle, seen held aloft by the figures in this Soviet-era statue, symbolised unity between the working class and the peasantry

When and why did the Soviet Union fall? Your history guide to the USSR