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

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

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Robespierre’s brutal downfall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How should we teach the slave trade?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

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Portraits, power and royal wigs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

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Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

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What’s next for period drama?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Modern Welsh history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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

A runner is helped across a finish line

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21 key moments in the history of the modern Olympics

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How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Medal winners on a podium

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

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How assassinations have changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images) 

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From Hollywood to war heroes: 10 Olympians who were more famous outside sport. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

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Olympic oddballs: 5 unusual Olympic sports from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mao Zedong applauds a parade of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. These young militants followed Mao’s call in early August 1966 to defend the party from a ‘white terror’. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Reign of the red terror: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The slave trade: a family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster

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What was the Chernobyl Disaster?

Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace

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Tokyo Olympics 1964: the Games that defined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The piano: a musical history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Should they stand or fall? The great statue debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Are revolutions doomed to failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution

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What is a revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

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Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Running to escape the horrors of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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