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20th Century

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

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 6: Winston Churchill. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What the Stasi did next. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US NATO Army on training in Germany

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Able Archer 83: the Nato war-game that nearly spelled nuclear disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Apartheid road sign

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Your guide to apartheid in South Africa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The rise and fall of Britain’s motor city. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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?

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Blackface: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 4: Harold Wilson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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The Night of the Long Knives: the bloody purge that secured Hitler's power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

20th Century

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

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The changing shape of slimming clubs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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The 1951 Festival of Britain: banishing the gloom of postwar Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s great postwar party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alcohol is poured away into a New York sewer during the prohibition era, c1920

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QuizProhibition: how much do you know about the US ban on booze?

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

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Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

Happier days: The tsar and his family pose for a portrait in c1910, years before he was swept from power and murdered. Maria, Olga and Tatiana (left to right) are at the back. Alexandra and Nicholas are seated with Alexey at their feet. Anastasia is far right. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The last days of the Romanovs: could George V have saved the family?

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In their own words: the team behind Apollo 11 describe the 1969 mission to the Moon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of the royal family: Prince Louis; Prince George; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Charlotte; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; and Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's annual birthday parade on 8 June 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

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Q&AHow did the royals choose 'Windsor'?

British troops guard a wall during the Irish War of Independence, which bears a nationalist message

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The Irish Republican Army: a brief guide

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 2: Stanley Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stanley Baldwin in the study at Chequers, the PM's official country residence, c1925

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Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of King George V of England. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to King George V: facts about his life, reign and death

A German sailor signals Bismarck during manoeuvres in the western Atlantic, some time before the British gave chase. The maimed battleship sank below the waves on 27 May 1941

Second World War

The sinking of the Bismarck: a cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic

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Britain’s nuclear past: the fallout from the High Explosive Research programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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