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EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate.

The Radium Girls and the cotton revolution.

History’s most fascinating muses.

A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

The Mar Elian Catholic monastery burnt by Islamic State militants in 2016. (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)

History under attack: the destruction of antiquities in the Middle East.

Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

There was more to the 80s than Maggie.

David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

The battle for the US Constitution: how the 14th Amendment is under threat

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers.

Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

The Empire State building

FeatureFive facts about the Empire State Building

A combo picture of two images taken 13 August 2002 at Cairo Museum shows a foot of a mummy missing its big toe and beside it a prosthetic toe of leather and wood to replace the amputated real one. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&AHow long have people used prosthetic limbs?.

Student life and working class culture.

Illustration of electric chair

Q&AWho invented the electric chair?

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

Michael Wood on... Oxford's Cecil Rhodes statue.

The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

History explorer: the swinging sixties.

A coffin containing the skeleton of King Richard III sitting in repose inside Leicester Cathedral. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Are we blinded by our love of history?.

A portrait of the author Leo Tolstoy on his 80th birthday. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A brief history of War and Peace.

A brief history of camouflage

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?.

The history of middle-class wine drinking

Arsenic: a brief history of Agatha Christie’s favourite murder weapon.

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

Q&AWhy do we say ‘happy as Larry’?

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The LibraryBritain’s tearoom fascists.

Britain’s railways and the Titanic.

In pictures: Frank Sinatra at 100

The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy.