20th Century

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

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Ruby Turner and Sister Rosetta Tharpe

My history hero Ruby Turner chooses Sister Rosetta Tharpe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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1939: A shop assistant working at the cash desk in a Ladies Hosiery department store in Birmingham. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Beauty before durability: the interwar beginnings of fast fashion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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American athlete Alvin Kraenzlein pioneered the now-universal modern technique for hurdling – and claimed four golds. (Photo by Getty Images)

The madcap Paris Olympics: the chaos that nearly derailed the 1900 Games . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dictator of Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin, addresses voters, of the Stalin election district in Moscow, on the even of the election in which Russians voted for the first time under the new constitution.

Josef Stalin: the paranoid dictator who forged the Soviet Union into a superpower

Charlotta Bass (centre), the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency. She's seen here with presidential running mate Vincent Hallinan (to Charlotta’s right) and singer and actor-turned-activist Paul Robeson

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

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Kavita Puri’s hidden histories: how Gurdip Singh Chaggar’s murder in 1976 sparked a youth movement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Inside a Jim Crow asylum . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Schoolchildren from Capel Celyn with a banner saying 'Liverpool shall not drown Capel Celyn'

Capel Celyn The Welsh village that became a reservoir for England

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The woman who saved the children . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How Stalin ran rings round the west . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British general elections: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Richardson attacking the painting The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez

Why did a suffragette attack ‘The Rokeby Venus’ with a meat cleaver?

A police mugshot of Frank Lee Morris

The shocking Alcatraz escape of 11 June 1962