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20th Century

How the Greeks changed the world.

A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bhim Rao Ambedkar: India’s 'untouchable' hero.

Shoppers in Liverpool during the 1960s

Q&AWhy is the shopping day after Thanksgiving called ‘Black Friday’?

Q&AWhat and when is the National Day of Mourning in the United States?

Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

In pictures: Interwar fascism.

A group of Tunisian Jews are rounded up and marched through the streets of Tunis carrying shovels in December 1942

Holocaust in the Middle East.

A secret trial that transformed transgender rights.

How to tell the story of WW2.

Espionage history: everything you wanted to know.

Black and white drawing showing King George V using a broom to sweep away several crowns adorned with the words 'Made in Germany'.

Fake history: 3 historical untruths that shaped the world

Surviving hell on earth: Polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes on Shackleton.

The CIA’s secret African missions.

A Marine M4 Sherman tank uses flails to detonate mines

The Sherwood Rangers' road to victory.

First World War

10 surprising facts about First World War uniforms

Charles and Diana on honeymoon in Balmoral

Diana: the rebel princess.

8 historical reasons behind Anne Boleyn’s appearance in Princess Diana film Spencer

Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales

“It doesn’t fall into the trap of making Diana a saint”: a historian’s review of Spencer

Black and white image of several African men pushing two French missionaries in a sort of chair with wheels.

Think pieceWhy history must take a stance.

West Indian recruits lift logs in training at a WW2 air base

OpinionWhy WW2 commemorations need to recognise the Black contribution.

Historical recipeHomity pie.

Living through the fall of communism.

Zazie Beetz and Jonathan Majors in the Netflix film The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall: the real cowboys who inspired the black Western

Johnny Hopper: a nerveless Nazi-killer.

Historical recipeFish Sausages.

Black cowboys on screen.

Doctor Who through the ages.

Windows on to history.

Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf.

The tragic story behind Sylvia Plath’s writing

How a ballerina survived the Gulag.

Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsA history of violence.