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20th Century

Swedish pop group ABBA performs during the Eurovision Song Contest

When was the first Eurovision and who won? Plus 6 facts on the history of the song contest

Oleg Gordievsky

Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent who changed the course of the Cold War

Inside a Jim Crow asylum

Video podcastIndian experiences in WW2

Mysterious moody trees at night.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesA holiday from hell

OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America

Stalingrad: WW2's greatest battles

David Lloyd George: life of the week

Video podcastThe West’s attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia

Being Black and gay in postwar Britain

Battle of Britain: WW2's greatest battles

How Kissinger transformed the Cold War

British prime minister Harold Wilson, March 1967. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Harold Wilson: 5 facts about the Labour Party prime minister

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder

History Behind the Headlines: the Bengal famine

Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland

Video podcastTokyo’s devastating 1923 earthquake

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?

Video podcastThe Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany

Old cobblestone footpath at a park.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesMy best friend's ghost

Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties

Video podcastEric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot

Ewan Macgregor in 'A Gentleman in Moscow' and the Hotel Metropol in Moscow

The incredible real history of A Gentleman in Moscow’s Hotel Metropol

The real Shirley Chisholm in 1974 and the Regina King in Netflix film 'Shirley'

Is Netflix’s Shirley a true story? The real history behind Chisholm's astonishing achievements

Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot

Sepia image of workers at a Lancashire cotton mill

How people with learning disabilities thrived in the 20th century

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: the real history that debunks one of history’s darkest conspiracies

Video podcastConspiracy: who killed JFK?

Video podcastLife of the Week: Stalin