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The burial mask of Tutankhamun. From the moment Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in The Valley of Kings in 1922, rumours swirled that a curse would fall on those who disturbed the Boy King's eternal slumber. (Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)

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Q&AHow many people are supposed to have died from the curse of Tutankhamun's tombs?

A still from the 2017 film Viceroy's House

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Raj nostalgia: reconsidering the stories through which we view empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Entebbe raid. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

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The rise of the Great British 'bobby': a brief history of Britain's police service

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5 facts about the Bevin Boys

Fremantle's High Street, with 19th-century buildings.

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My favourite place: Western Australia

Pathologist Thomas Harvey holds the brain of Albert Einstein in a jar, Kansas, 1994. Harvey, the on-duty pathologist during the eminent physicist's autopsy, removed Einstein’s brain and kept most of it stored in two glass jars, refrigerated inside a beer cooler, for more than 20 years. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat happened to Einstein's brain?

A badge promoting the Tufty Club, an organisation launched by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to educate children on road safety, 1941. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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Safety first: 20th-century health and safety messages

A poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool

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The great escape: Britain's love affair with the seaside holiday. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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TimelineKey moments in the American civil rights movement

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The Vietnam War on film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The real history behind ‘The Crown’ with Robert Lacey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A badge featuring American civil rights activist Martin Luther King

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The global legacy of Martin Luther King. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A quick history of France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Designer duo, husband and wife Robin and Lucienne Day, 1955. The pair “were perhaps the greatest British man and wife design team there has ever been”, says Wayne Hemingway. (Photo by Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo)

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My history hero: Robin Day (1915–2010) and Lucienne Day (1917–2010). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Martin Luther King waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington DC during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Martin Luther King's unfinished dream: the historians' view

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Creating the SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Opposing the Nazis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Charlie Chaplin, in a still from his 1936 film 'Modern Times’. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

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John Julius Norwich pictured at the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Husband and wife Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang), pictured at their wedding in 1928. The pair “dominated Chinese politics for two decades [and] were among the most prominent non-westerners on the planet throughout the 1930s and 1940s”, says Rana Mitter. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Six lives that shaped China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benjamin Tillett, organiser of the Docker's Union and leader of the London Transport Worker's strike in 1911, addressing a rally of the strikers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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The essay: Britain’s cautious revolutionaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A spell-binding history of witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Radio Times cover, 1931. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Winston Churchill, 1941. (Photo by War Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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History heroBarbara Taylor Bradford chooses Winston Churchill (1874–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Marshall Plan and the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

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

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