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How is the image of revolutionary Che Guevara commodified? Alex von Tunzelmann explores. (Photo by Francois ANCELLET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Che Guevara: face of the revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Books interview with AC Grayling: “A great philosophical mind is one that belongs to a childish heart – always curious, always open”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroTracy Austin chooses Arthur Ashe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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"Many of the Holocaust's perpetrators got away with it": why Nazi crimes went unpunished. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A general view of 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister currently in office, in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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The Prime Ministers we never quite had. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A history of women’s football in Scotland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings, 6 June 1944. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Your guide to D-Day: what happened, how many casualties were there, and what did it accomplish?

20th Centurygallery10 photographs that made history

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MK Ultra: the secrets of the CIA's mind-control programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Live Aid stage at Wembley, London, in 1985

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When Live Aid rocked the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charlton Hetson races a chariot in Ben-Hur

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Wacky races: 10 weird and wonderful contests through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first state visit by American President George W Bush in 2003 was highly controversial, attracting protesters opposed to the involvement of the United States and Britain in the Iraq War. Here the president is pictured with the Queen in 2008. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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From pageantry to controversy: a brief history of state visits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade (Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders) going ashore, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944. (Credit: Gilbert Alexander Milne/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-122765)

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“Free people everywhere should remember them”: the Canadians’ role in D-Day

Sergeant Stubby, an American dog who served as the mascot of America's 102nd Infantry Regiment during the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Sergeant Stubby of the First World War: the heroic story of America’s most decorated war dog

1960s model. (Photo by Alamy)

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Women in the 1960s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In 1937, Amelia Earhart, one of the world’s most famous aviators, apparently disappeared without a trace during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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From Jack the Ripper to Amelia Earhart: 17 unsolved historical mysteries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British troops learn to swim in full kit on a training course in May 1944. "A blind man could see something big was about to happen," said one soldier. (Image by Getty Images)

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D-Day: why the training was deadlier than the assault. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Fridtjof Nansen, taken after his daring expedition across Greenland. (Image by Alamy)

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My history heroPaul Rose chooses Fridtjof Nansen

A 1954 illustration of a woman wearing nylons. Lightweight, easy to conceal and fiercely sought after, stockings were a favourite with smugglers. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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Nylon pirates: the postwar craze for cut-price stockings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian and geographer Jared Diamond

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Books interview with Jared Diamond: “With countries, as with people, crises attract attention”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jared Diamond (Photo by Jochen Braun)

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Jared Diamond on countries in crisis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill making the famed ‘V’ for Victory sign. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Winston Churchill facts: 9 things you might not know about the WW2 prime minister

Members of Preston Ladies' Football Club (formerly Dick, Kerr’s Ladies) pose while carrying out leg exercises during practice, March 1937. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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1921: the year when football banned women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cathy Newman speaks to the History Extra podcast about 'Bloody Brilliant Women'. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Women who made modern Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paul Morland (Photo by Fran Monks)

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How population has shaped world history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

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Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic

Record producer Joe Meek

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Joe Meek: the life and legacy of the British record producer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US baseball legend, Joseph 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson, who was banned from the game along with seven other players after admitting that they had accepted money to lose the 1919 World Series.

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“Say it ain’t so”: The ‘Black Sox’ scandal that rocked American baseball. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II driving her children Prince Charles and Princess Anne at Windsor, 1957. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Why do Brits drive on the left-hand side of the road? Plus 4 other facts about the history of driving in Britain

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