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20th Century

Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

Music and revolution.

British 40th Division tanks transporting captured German guns from the battle of Cambrai. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

First World War

5 tanks that changed the course of the First World War

BBC Arabic at 80.

ExploreSt Petersburg, Russia: the Venice of the north.

Earth Seen from Space Shuttle Discovery 1990

Earth from space: How pioneering photos changed our view of the planet

The World Cup story.

The Spanish Flu pandemic.

The Pankhursts.

Suffragette Annie Kenney is arrested during a demonstration. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

5 women’s rights activists you might not know about.

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

The 1913 march for women’s suffrage.

The Suffragettes.

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change.

The LibraryFemale suffrage: Victory at last!.

Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

Notre Dame and Paris, France

The LibraryMy favourite place: Paris, France

American novelist John Updike

My history hero: John Updike (1932-2009).

East End crime.

A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner's guide to art history.

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece.

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

OpinionWas the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?.

Field Marshal Bill Slim

My history hero: Field Marshal Bill Slim (1891-1970).

Winston Churchill leaves a cabinet meeting

Churchill’s days of destiny.

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

Q&A: When were the first film trailers shown?

In pictures: a history of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures