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20th Century

Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution.

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

First World War

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

Episode 5Change & innovation in 60s Britain.

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War.

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

9 places where British astronomy flourished.

Eurovision: a political history.

Coco Chanel in Paris, 1929

Why we should remember…How Chanel No 5 revolutionised the beauty business.

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

War in the air: everything you wanted to know.

Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember…Target Zero Day.

Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe.

American actress, singer and model Marilyn Monroe

Something's got to giveThe dramatic life of Marilyn Monroe

Women from the Auxiliary Territorial Service take a break

Second World War

An army of women: adventures in the Auxiliary Territorial Service

Anne Frank writing at her desk, c1942

Why we should remember…the translation of Anne Frank’s diary.

The upstairs/downstairs world of Downton Abbey: how true to life is it?

Video games at 50: a cultural history.

A mushroom cloud rises into the sky above Enewetak Atoll

The mystery of the missing H-bomb paper.

A wall mosaic of Picasso’s Guernica painting.

Q&AWhy did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?

As well as practising Wicca, other traditions with Pagan roots – such as celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge – still remain popular. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images)

Wicca and modern witchcraft: a history

BBC at 100Captivating little citizens.

Episode 4TV takes off in the 1950s.

The Falklands War: everything you wanted to know.

Rebel ramblers of the Kinder Trespass.

Ramblers pictured on Kinder Scout in 1932

Kinder Scout Mass Trespass: how the Peak District became Britain's first national park.

Trailblazers of black British theatre.

QuizHow much do you know about Titanic?

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the laws of war“Russian politicians and military figures behind the awful events unfolding in Ukraine will, one day, be brought to justice”.

An illustration of a Soviet warship inside a Pepsi bottle

Q&AIs it true that Pepsi briefly owned Soviet warships?