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Migrants at a detention centre in Texas, March 2019

The complex history of concentration camps

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster

British police history: everything you wanted to know

The Windsors in exile

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

Brazilian peacekeepers under UN command in Haiti during general election 2006

When should countries intervene in others’ affairs?

Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history

Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall

The British Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the day of George VI's coronation

Britain’s May Queen: your guide to Queen Mary of Teck

Robespierre’s brutal downfall

How should we teach the slave trade?

History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

Portraits, power and royal wigs

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories

A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

What’s next for period drama?

Modern Welsh history: everything you wanted to know

Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi's quest for the supernatural

A runner is helped across a finish line

21 key moments in the history of the modern Olympics

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know

Medal winners on a podium

Q&AWho won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

How assassinations have changed history

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero

Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images)

From Hollywood to war heroes: 10 Olympians who were more famous outside sport