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20th Century

Children's author Beatrix Potter as a young woman, c1892

Why the real Beatrix Potter was more than her children’s tales

A lobbycard for the 1923 film Is Conan Doyle Right? (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)

The supernatural interests of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A replica of St Edward’s Crown, used in the coronation of British rulers since 1661

General History

Who is Britain’s greatest monarch?

Emerald Fennell plays Camilla Parker Bowles (then Shand) in 'The Crown'

In profile: Queen Consort Camilla

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Charles and CamillaA history of their romance

Three female civil rights pioneers

America’s Cold War culture boom

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on

Episode 1Audio adventures in the 1920s

BBC employees at work in the control room at the new home at Broadcasting House (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Broadcasting House: a new home for the BBC

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

Elitism in cricket: a history

Soldiers from Mao Zedong’s Red Army assemble in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, 1936 (Photo by Getty)

The Chinese Civil War: a guide to the conflict and the rise of Mao Zedong

Cold war mind games

America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know

Munich: the real history behind the new film

Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, in Munich – The Edge of War

Second World War

A martyr and a hero? How Munich – The Edge of War tries to soften Neville Chamberlain’s rotten reputation

Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

Czechoslovakia’s fate hangs in the balance: the build up to the Munich Conference of 1938

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

Coronation chicken recipe

Historical recipeCoronation chicken

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

Second World War

The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Illustration of enemies shaking hands

What makes for a good peace?

Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies

The battle for Sicily: breaking into Fortress Europe

Women who served in WW2