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A 21st-century Holocaust trial.

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings

Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners

Arthur Hughes as Matthew Shardlake in Disney+ drama Shardlake

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Ludwig van Beethoven (Photo by Lebrecht Music & Arts/Alamy)

How Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has been an ode to peace around the world.

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion.

Video podcastAlcatraz: everything you wanted to know.

Black and white sunset at Westminster abbey with the Big Ben backlit taken in may before starting the repair works at the tower.

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A group of wartime evacuees take time to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, flipping pancakes in the air

Shrove Tuesday historyWhy do we eat pancakes?

A photograph of Prince Harry as a teenager playing rugby.

Off to school: how do the royal family educate their children?.

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

The ex factor: why David Cameron’s return isn’t unprecedented.

What was Queen Elizabeth II like as a mother?.

Toy Story, starring cowboy Woody

10 milestones in Disney's 100-year history

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The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a "vivid running commentary" on a century of British life

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Chaos & violence in country houses.

Martin Luther King speaks in front of microphones, during the March on Washtington

"I Have A Dream": the speech that America couldn’t ignore

California’s hidden history of slavery.

Is Eastern Europe disappearing?

British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know.

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

Second World War

What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

A photograph of Albert Einstein looking into the camera

Albert Einstein: facts about his life, death, education and work

Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Simon Schama“Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia”.

Gussie Moran playing tennis with her lace knickers on show at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.

10 scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history.

How germs shaped human history.

Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers.

Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean.

Guitarist David Crosby of the Byrds performs with his band in front of a large crowd at the Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais, June 1967. (Image by © Henry Diltz/Corbis)

General History

From Ancient Greece to Glastonbury: a brief history of music festivals

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

JuneteenthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read