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20th Century

Afghanistan: a history of instability.

Workers package Chicken Ramen, the first mass-produced instant noodles, in a factory in Japan, c1960

The age of noodles: Momofuku Ando and the rise of ramen in post-war Japan.

How dogs shaped city life.

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast.

African-American women’s battle for the vote.

Asia’s anti-imperial revolutionaries.

Historian Saul David

Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”.

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art.

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

A homemade ouija board, a treasure hunt and fake madness: the great escape of World War I.

Apartheid: everything you wanted to know.

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner.

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

Unexpected Edwardians.

Plagues of our past.

Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment.

My father the Nazi.

Mário Soares of the Socialist Party basks in public adulation after becoming prime minister in the election of 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to the Carnation Revolution

10 quotations that defined the 20th century

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

How did the British royals survive WW1?.

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

How George V won the war.

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes.

Portrait of Prince Philip

Prince Philip: the loyal consort.

Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, on their wedding day

The Prince Philip Years: how did Britain change while he was Queen Elizabeth II's consort?.

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad

Jihad and the British empire.

From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history.

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know.

Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, the top above water

Britain’s nuclear deterrent: a brief history.

A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Battle of Britain myths.