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1960s Britain: smashing the status quo? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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10 milestones in Disney’s 100-year history

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Cartoon century: a history of 100 years of Disney . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Disney at 100 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weimar Germany: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men from Bethlehem in Jerusalem in 1894, when the territory identified as Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire. At the start of the 19th century Palestine's population was mostly Arab, with a small Jewish minority, but from the 1880s waves of settlers rapidly augmented the Jewish population (Culture Club/Getty Images)
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Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes

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How batteries powered the 20th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Psychoanalysing President Wilson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Huxleys: how one family shaped our view of nature . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Irsraeli Prime Minister Golda Meir sits at a desk, with one arm on the table
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Israel’s Iron Lady: the real story of Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur War

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The Cultural Revolution: a Chinese catastrophe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Indian soldier keeps watch in a British trench, c1916
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The British empire in 1923: the story of the imperial project’s territorial height

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One day in the British empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Radio Times at 100: a “vivid running commentary” on a century of British life