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The future King George VI playing at the Wimbledon tennis championships, 1926

How George VI’s sheer ordinariness made him the darling of the nation

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?

Young Belgian refugees wave a British flag during celebrations for Belgian National Day in London during the First World War

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Belgian refugees in WW1 Britain: were they welcome guests?

Silence in Piccadilly Circus, London as people commemorate the anniversary of the end of the First World War. (Photo by Daily Mail / Rex Features)

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From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today

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Margaret MacMillan Why are there wars?

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

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

Photographs documenting the facial reconstruction of a soldier whose cheek was extensively wounded during the Battle of the Somme

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What happened to the 8 million people who were disabled during WW1?

Portrait by Sherril Schell of British poet Rupert Brooke. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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5 influential WW1 poets you should know about

Clash between the English Temeraire and the French Redoutable ships during the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

9 podcasts about war and military history to listen to right now

Bird's eye view: An old woman with a 'fortune telling' parakeet in 1920s London. Those who questioned science and reason in postwar Britain were

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The rise of spiritualism after WW1

A silhouette of troops of the 1st Australian Division during the First World War.

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First World War quiz: how much do you know about WW1?

Photo of flu patients during the First World War

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Q&A Why was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?

A line-up of girls ready to play football, somewhere in England during the First World War, c1917. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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10 facts you (probably) didn’t know about the First World War

Four women dressed in the perceived fashion of the roaring twenties in a 1954 musical called ‘The Boy Friend’. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the ‘Roaring Twenties’ myth obscures the making of modern Britain

Indian soldiers during WWI

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Indians in the trenches