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Second World War

Tobruk: 8 facts about the WW2 confrontation in North Africa

The Cold War battle for Berlin.

The history and mystery of UFOs.

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg.

Kurdish fighters in north-west Iran, 1918

The history of the Kurds in Iraq: "the largest people never to have achieved statehood".

Socialite, countess, WW2 spy: Aline Griffith.

Fred Perry in action in the Wimbledon final in 1936. (Photo by Getty Images)

Fred Perry: the icon and the outcast.

Murder: a legal history.

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks

Bound for Britain: your guide to the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

The untold story of India’s WW2 prisoners of war.

The merits of meritocracy.

Women secret agents in Nazi-occupied France.

A man digs a grave in Sarajevo for victims of the war in Bosnia, 1992

Yugoslavia: why shared Slavic identity couldn’t save an idealised nation from fracture and bloodshed.

"Make love not midnight snacks": a social history of slimming clubs.

Censorship, contradiction & controversy: a decade in the life of DH Lawrence.

Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 9: Secrets of being a successful leader.

Titanic: everything you wanted to know.

Women reporters of WW2.

Eric Liddell winning the 400-metre final at the 1924 Olympic Games

History heroDan Walker chooses Eric Liddell (1902–45).

UFO history10 top sightings and a timeline

Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 8: Margaret Thatcher.

Britain’s secret Jewish commandos.

Prisoners exercise and play sport in the courtyard of the Fleet Prison, circa 1872

Timeline: a history of prisons in Britain

Fern RiddellSex: Lessons from History.

QuizHow well do you know your warships?.

Tulsa race massacre: A man surveys the wreckage of homes in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa, June 1921. Two days of racist violence and destruction left what had been one of the United States’ wealthiest black communities in ruins

The 1921 Tulsa race massacre: the worst single incident of racial violence in US history.

Why are we living longer than our ancestors?.

The crew of SMS King in its home port following the battle of the Skagerrak, June 1916. (Photo by A Renard/ullstein image via Getty Images)

First World War

Jutland: the battle that won the First World War

Alan Turing

Second World War

Your guide to Alan Turing: the man, the enigma

Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 6: Winston Churchill.