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20th Century

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.

Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

Second World War

The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar.

Pearl HarborEpisode 3.

Pearl HarborEpisode 2.

A statue in Kiev showing a Ukrainian player defeating a Third Reich eagle symbol at the Start stadium's entrance

Q&ADid Nazis guards really play a 'death match' against a Ukrainian football team?.

Unionist leader Edward Carson (centre) and colleagues visit Derry/Londonderry, September 1912 – the month when nearly half a million people signed a “Solemn League and Covenant” to resist home rule

Resolving the 'Irish Question': 5 key moments on the path to partition.

A Japanese photograph shows Mitsubishi dive bombers warming up on the deck of a carrier in the Pacific before their attack on Pearl Harbor in the early hours of 7 December 1941. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

'Britain’s Pearl Harbor': Japan's December 1941 attack on the British colony of Malaya

The Great Depression: everything you wanted to know.

Searching for WW1’s fallen soldiers.

Pearl HarborEpisode 1.

Josephine Baker lounges on a tiger skin around the time she starred in La Revue Nègre

Singer, siren, activist, spy: the incredible life of Josephine Baker.

Stranger danger? Xenophobia’s unexpected history.

How Shakespeare inspired terrorists.