20th Century - Getty Images

20th Century

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

What the Stasi did next

US NATO Army on training in Germany

Able Archer 83: the Nato war-game that nearly spelled nuclear disaster

Apartheid road sign

Your guide to apartheid in South Africa

The rise and fall of Britain’s motor city

Italian prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard to work on a farm, September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Second World War

Prisoners of war in Britain during WW2: where were they held?

Blackface: a brief history

Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 4: Harold Wilson

Once allies, Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm (sitting to his left) had a colossal falling out over ideology

The Night of the Long Knives: the bloody purge that secured Hitler's power

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

Soldiers from the Women's Royal Army Corps

Second World War

A brief guide to VE Day

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

The changing shape of slimming clubs

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?

Prohibition: everything you wanted to know

Festival of Britain official programme. The event was held in 1951 on London's South Bank

The 1951 Festival of Britain: banishing the gloom of postwar Britain