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America's devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal.

“I’ve been close to death nine times”: John Simpson on life as a foreign correspondent.

Reporting from war zones.

The Aberfan disaster and women who made history.

Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

Transcending the Cold War.

Sheet music.

History quiz – songs, space stations and capital cities.

Churchill's army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined.

Did women revolt in Europe?.

Cold War summits.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world.

Londoners read newspaper headlines about Britain's entry to the Common Market, January 1973. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The reluctant Europeans.

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the TV series 'Poldark'. (Photo by Adrian Rogers)

Period dramas should not be judged on historical accuracy, say historians.

Poldark and historical TV drama.

The history of London’s 10 greatest live music venues.

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

The Suez crisis and the north of England.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

History explorer: the Cold War.

The 1920s: Roaring or tame?.

Emil Zátopek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The running revolutionary.

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s.

The Cold War and the history of philosophy.

Two King Edwards.

The history of the suntan

Bologna, Italy. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bologna, Italy

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League.

Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

1966: when the swing turned sour.

‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power.

The four candidates for the Labour leadership taking part in a hustings in The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, in July 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. From left: Liz Kendall; Andy Burnham; Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The historians' view: What does the future hold for the Labour party?

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers.