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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

My history heroJeremy Bowen chooses Vincent Sheean.

American psychiatry: a tortured history.

Episode 4The road to resolution.

Episode 3Dangerous days.

Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle.

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"

World Cup history: everything you wanted to know.

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 100Into the digital age.