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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

Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin. (Getty Images)

First World War

Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

Pearl HarborEpisode 5

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas

Fascism: everything you wanted to know

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers' Flyer and the world's first flight

Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

Photo of members of the Versailles Conference

First World War

Your guide to the Treaty of Versailles

Pearl HarborEpisode 4

Emma Dabiri“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”

Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoises

Michael Wood on James Bond“Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world”

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

What was Christmas like in Britain during WW2?

Soviet infantrymen charge in a counter offensive during the battle of Moscow, 1941.

The 1941 battle of Moscow: how successful was Operation Typhoon?

Pearl Harbor aftermath: the fallout from the attack

How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s