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Cold War

Simon Hall explores why Fidel Castro’s visit to New York City in 1960 shaped the rest of the decade. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

Castro and the trip that shaped the 1960s

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129
Cold War

Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor

Dag Hammarskjöld
Cold War

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?

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Ernest Bevin
Second World War

Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior

Berlin Wall
20th Century

The Berlin Wall: everything you need to know

In need of some summer reading inspiration? Check out our list of favourite biographies, era-spanning epics and much else besides. (Photo by Goodluz/Alamy Stock Photo)
General Modern

Summer reads 2020: the best history books to take on holiday (or staycation)

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon's surface
20th Century

The history of the moon landing: everything you need to know

President Kennedy gives a televised speech, 22 October 1962. (Photo by Getty Images)
Cold War

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)
20th Century

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

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Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in a scene from the 1962 film 'James Bond: Dr. No' (Photo by United Artist/Getty Images)
20th Century

The spies who inspired Bond

Astronauts being lifted from the Apollo 13 spacecraft after splashdown in the South Pacific,1970. (Photo by Alamy)
20th Century

Apollo 13

A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
General Modern

Burglary: a modern history

B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)
Second World War

From Allies to enemies

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
20th Century

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall

Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up
21st Century

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump

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