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A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Jarrow March. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A proponent of same-sex marriage protests outside the Houses of Parliament, 3 June 2013. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Sexual Offences Act: a gay revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Icelandic murder mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Winston Churchill greeting the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. From left to right: Princess Elizabeth II; the Queen Mother; Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Buckingham Palace’s balcony: a focal point for national celebration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vietnam

Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe English in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryVoices of the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto and a mountain in the background

ExploreKyoto: Japan’s city of gardens and geishas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Islamic enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)

The nuclear 1980s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of women cycling along the beach at Newquay, c1923. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

ExploreLa Paz, Bolivia: the history of the turbulent city of peace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)

'Guerrilla' and the real history of British Black Power

Women in popular history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roots: a necessary portrayal of transatlantic slavery?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viceroy’s House: the history behind the film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The roots of modern rage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Tom Holland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap district in Cape Town South Africa

ExploreCape Town: Africa’s ‘Mother City’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841–1918), by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1867. (Photo by The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

Corner shops and Russian ballet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum Tristram Hunt. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

History-loving politicians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.