20th Century

A range of Barbies at a New York toy fair, 2019

Barbie: a forward-thinking and a behind-the-times image of womanhood

The newly-completed Central Criminal Court in the City of London, known as the Old Bailey.

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Inflation hit Britain hard in the 1970s. Here activist Erin Pizz addresses a protest by housewives holdiing placards decrying rising food prices in July 1971

Q&A UK inflation: how does today’s economic crisis compare to the 1970s?

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A man winces as he receives a flu vaccination

How Britain fell in love with the NHS

NHS nurses holding a baby.

Was there ever a golden age of the NHS?

Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.

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Gussie Moran playing tennis with her lace knickers on show at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.

10 scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war

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Windrush at 75 Why is arrival of Windrush such a key milestone?

A group of men reading the news aboard the HMT Empire Windrush on arrival at Tilbury in Essex, 22nd June 1948.

The forgotten history of Windrush