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American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

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Tension in the Middle East and populist presidents: what the world was like 100 years ago. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Windrush generation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German prisoners of war

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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

New York City police watching agents pour liquor into a sewer

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Wet vs Dry: how prohibition fractured America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American socialite Wallis Simpson

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The vilification of Wallis Simpson: how Edward VIII's mistress was savaged by society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

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The liberation of Auschwitz, 75 years on: what happened and how do we remember the Holocaust?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ayatollah Khomeini

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A brief history of Iran

David Bowie and Twiggy

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David Bowie's life in pictures

Edvard Munch's painting 'Love and Pain'

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The Vampyre stirs: 200 years of vampire entertainment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

French prime minister Georges Clemenceau (left), US president Woodrow Wilson (centre) and British PM David Lloyd George at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The treaty's provisions have been blamed for causing the Second World War. (Image by Topfoto)

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Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another world war?

Crowds protest in Tehran

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Opinion: is Iran a nation at war with itself?

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"A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

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The long history of Brexit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The two faces of Robert Mugabe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Venezuela: a hundred years of turmoil. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Somewhere in between exploitation and empowerment”: James Norton on society osteopath Stephen Ward

The Trial of Christine Keeler. (Photo by BBC)

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Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies: the women at the heart of the Profumo Affair

Mandy Rice-Davies (left) and Christine Keeler

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Notes on a scandal: revisiting the Profumo Affair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The birth of the modern world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini give a fascist salute

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A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Margaret Thatcher enters Downing Street

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How to win an election: 25 general elections and where they were won – and lost. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rotten boroughs cartoon

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9 general election curiosities through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A voter in a British election in 1923.

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A new political climate? The UK's long tradition of winter elections. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

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Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Asians in 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

20th CenturygalleryIn pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

Lord Mountbatten at a desk

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Lord Mountbatten: Did Prince Philip’s uncle attempt to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s government?

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