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The US assault on Okinawa

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The WW2 battle of Okinawa: the bloodiest assault of the Pacific War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two American soldiers wait for the second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division during Operation Pershing during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War defined America in the second half of the 20th century. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Vietnam War – plus 7 surprising facts you might not know

Walt Disney uses a baton to point to sketches of Disneyland

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The history of Disneyland: How Walt Disney created the 'Happiest Place on Earth'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous after World War II for his work as a 'Nazi hunter'. (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The real Nazi hunters: how the infamous escaped – and those who brought them to justice

Children play as air raid wardens during the Blitz in London

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PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

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The greatest show on earth? The myths of the Victorian freak show

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Rosa Parks (right) riding on a bus following the Supremacial segregation on Montgomery's public transit system. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Photo of flu patients during the First World War

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Q&AWhy was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?

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Misbehaviour at Miss World: what happened at the 1970 beauty pageant?

Shoppers crowd a Woolworths store in 1955

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Q&AHas there always been panic buying? And when have people panic shopped through history?

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their third son, Prince Edward, on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A brief history of royal mothers and childbirth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

17th September 1936: The British minister of health, Sir Kingsley Wood, watches nurses weighing newborn twins during a visit to Southmead Hospital in Bristol to see the work local authorities were doing for the maintenance and improvement of health and housing conditions. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Hadley Freeman.

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Secrets of a 20th-century Jewish family: Hadley Freeman on her book House of Glass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A nurse, a banker and… a TV producer? The royals through history who have held other jobs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wales’s turbulent 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme

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The woman who gave birth for Hitler

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Resistance in the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anti-suffrage: the women who didn't want the vote. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

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A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

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12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary

Queen Elizabeth greets the crowd from the top of a huge elephant minutely decorated during a walk to the gates of the Jaipur Palace, c1961 in Jaipur, India. (Photo by Keystone-FranceGamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Photographs of Anne Frank and her father, Otto, with the typewriter

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Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

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How do dictators seize power? The malevolent careers of eight 20th-century leaders explained

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Four women dressed in the perceived fashion of the roaring twenties in a 1954 musical called ‘The Boy Friend’. (Photo by Getty Images)

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How the ‘Roaring Twenties’ myth obscures the making of modern Britain

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