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Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, sits with his wife, Wallis Simpson, at the Chateau de Cands in France, 1937. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Edward VIII: Nazi sympathiser, playboy prince or peace-loving reformer?

Battle of Verdun. French trench on the front lines, 1916. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Verdun

Vintage postcard showing Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and a pet corgi. (Photo by the History Press)

8 of the best dogs in history

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 03: Lorraine Kelly attends a photocall to launch the UK4U! Christmas box appeal at Armoury House on December 3, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

My history hero: Ernest Shackleton (d1922)

Lady Sybil Grey, an indomitable Englishwoman who, as a nurse in Russia, led a field hospital and had a grandstand view of the February 1917 revolution that toppled the tsar. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Magazine)

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The Library Lady Sybil Grey: a lady in the line of fire

French prime minister Georges Clemenceau (left), US president Woodrow Wilson (centre) and British PM David Lloyd George at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The treaty's provisions have been blamed for causing the Second World War. (Image by Topfoto)

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Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another war?

Silver penny of Cnut. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The New Year’s resolutions Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and Josef Stalin should have made…

Indian troops cooking in their camp kitchen in Marseilles. (Photo by Mirrorpix)

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Indians in World War One

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

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Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

A vintage colour postcard, possibly produced to send Christmas greetings from the frontline, somewhere on the Western Front, during the First World War, c1918. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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Christmas 10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War

A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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“There was no feeling sorry for themselves”: director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War

This illustration from a Women’s Social and Political Union poster condemns the force-feeding of suffragettes in 1910. Many women were subjected to this brutal procedure between 1909 and August 1914. (Museum of London)

Cat and mouse: force feeding the suffragettes

c1916: British soldiers sitting around a lamp in their trench. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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10 First World War slang words we still use today

Photograph of the Wounded British Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme. Dated 1916. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of the Somme