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Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

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Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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‘Two steps behind’: male royal consorts through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Imperial State Crown

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Q&AWhere were the crown jewels kept during World War II?

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Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former US president Theodore Roosevelt stands on a boat with Cândido Rondon

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Charles Sobhraj (centre) pictured in 2011, while trying to sue the Nepalese government for unlawful imprisonment

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The real history of The Serpent: the true story of Charles Sobhraj

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Vladimir Lenin and his lust for power

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Stalin: the real victor of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sending the first man into space. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The morning after: the impact of prohibition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German troops and a Georgian ‘volunteer’ in action in 1942 or 43.

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Texel: Europe's last battle of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tales of Irish emigration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

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Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

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Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The western front: a cauldron of innovation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A photograph of the battle of Moscow, 1942, first printed in Signal, a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 to 1945. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

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Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

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Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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