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The brutal murder of Emmett Till was just one of thousands of racially motivated lynchings in the American South, but it proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights revolution. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Emmett Till: the murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement

An illustration showing interior of the House of Commons

9 things you didn’t know about the history of parliament

Decontamination of the Chernobyl NPP territory. (Photo by Alamy)

Chernobyl: the story of a tragedy

A real Peaky Blinder mug-shot

In pictures: what did the real Peaky Blinders look like?

Digitally restored vintage photo of the RMS Titantic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912. (Photo by John Parrot/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images)

10 facts about the Titanic

Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders. (Photo by Alamy)

The real Peaky Blinders

People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

Mona Lisa heist: how do you steal the world’s most famous painting?

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of gangs and gangsters

Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?

Photo by Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images

Top tips for studying history at university

US President John F Kennedy gives his first State of the Union address to Congress at the House of Representatives, Washington DC, 30 January 1961. Kennedy is one of eight presidents to have died during their term in office. (Photo by NASA/SSPL/Getty Images)

Q&A How many US presidents died in office?

Gordon Brown talks to the History Extra podcast about Andrew Carnegie. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

Gordon Brown on Andrew Carnegie

US soldiers in Vietnam

From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma

Changdeokgung Palace in South Korea

Travel Seoul, South Korea: a modern metropolis rising from ruins

Families in a London slum, c1900

From slums to suburbs: Britain’s council house revolution