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21st Century

Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.
20th Century

Think piece Our dangerous devotion to the Second World War

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton
Georgian

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

2020_verdict
21st Century

2020: the historians’ verdict

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Kerri Greenidge, Tom Holland, Suzannah Lipscomb and Michael Wood debate the historical context of 2020
21st Century

2020: The historians’ verdict

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Victorian

In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019
General Modern

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth II
20th Century

In profile: Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)
21st Century

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)
21st Century

How to become a history student at home

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Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)
General Modern

How can we improve diversity within history education?

London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)
General Modern

Rationing, school closures and ‘Blitz spirit’: how did people cope in WW2?

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
General Modern

Donald Trump: a president without precedent?

The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)
General Modern

A brief history of election “rigging” in the United States

Huge sun setting over power lines and palm trees in California. (Photo by Getty Images)
General Modern

California’s century of change

Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak, February 1920. (Photo by Getty Images)
General Modern

A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19

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