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20th Century

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.

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions.

Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

History's greatest mysteriesWhy did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?.

The Beatles pictured in 1969

The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain.

The 1993 film ‘Schindler’s List’. (AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Second World War

7 must-see WW2 films, from Schindler’s List to Letters from Iwo Jima

History's greatest mysteriesAgatha Christie disappears.

A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Q&AWho was the Piltdown Man?

Turning points1956: The shock of Suez.

Turning points1916: The long march to modernity.

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

Christmas feasts with Annie GrayEpisode 4: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity.

The Apollo 8 crew in a capsule during training

Apollo 8: why NASA's Christmas mission to the Moon was a bright end to a dark year.