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The women who fought back against Hollywood. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Spitfires under construction at the Vickers Supermarine works in Southampton, around 1940

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The difficult birth of the Spitfire – and how the WW2 fighter almost missed the battle of Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rivalries and romances: couples that shook up history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The space race: everything you wanted to know

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

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The big questions of LGBTQ history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US marines advance up Iwo Jima's beaches

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The battle for Iwo Jima: why did it happen and why was it so hard fought?

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Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is “Blitz Spirit” a myth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

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Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

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The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A decoy rubber tank such as those used by the Allies during WW2.

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Masters of disguise: the story of the Allies' WW2 'Ghost Army'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sex, romance and rights: women's lives since 1950. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

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Lucy Worsley on Blitz Spirit: the courageous stories of six Londoners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Your guide to Adolf Hitler: key facts about the Nazi dictator

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1962: London’s big freeze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cary Grant: from humble beginnings to Hollywood icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Blitz spirit or broken morale?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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QuizHow well do you know Year 9 history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

Did Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (pictured) ever meet? (Photos by Getty Images)

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Q&ADid Churchill and Hitler ever meet?

Student nurse Dorothy Norris

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A brief guide to the history of the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Rebuilding Europe after WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How oceans shaped human civilisation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Searching for freedom after the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RuPaul – who produces and presents the reality TV show bearing his name – performs during a Gay Rights March in Washington, DC, April 1993. Over 500,000 LGBTQ+ activists and allies participated in a gathering organised to end discrimination. (Photo by Porter Gifford/Liaison)

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From Fanny and Stella to Ru Paul's Drag Race: a short history of drag. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The race for vaccines: lessons from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

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The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history's most dangerous diseases. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mourning Martin Luther King JrThe life and legacy of the civil rights leader. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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