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Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

George VI: the everyman king

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Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors

Boys playing conkers in 1926. Horse chestnuts played an unlikely role in the war effort just a few years earlier. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Did conkers help win the First World War?

Douglas Haig (right) watches the stamping of poppies by ex-servicemen, during a visit to the British Legion poppy factory in Richmond, 22 October 1926. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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The Library Douglas Haig: a postwar revolutionary?

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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

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Bernard Cornwell on his novels

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British empire

Field Marshal Harold Alexander, pictured in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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My history hero Field Marshal Harold Alexander (1891–1969)

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Octavia: Daughter of God

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To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain

The Saint-Quentin canal, part of the Germans’ Hindenburg Line, which the Allies broke through on Sunday 29 September 1918. (Photo by 2nd Lt. D McLellan/ IWM via Getty Images)

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The Library Why didn’t the Allies march on Berlin in 1918?

German Spring Offensive: reserve troops in Saint Quentin on their way to the front, March 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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How the war was won

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My history hero: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938)

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Consequences of Peace: The Versailles Settlement, Aftermath and Legacy 1919–2010