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Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini give a fascist salute

A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends.

Politics, Roman style.

Margaret Thatcher enters Downing Street

How to win an election: 25 general elections and where they were won – and lost.

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele.

A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

12 facts about the Stuarts

Eleanor of Aquitaine: myth and reality.

A portrait of Louis XIV in 1701.

From musketeers to Macron: 10 remarkable facts about the Sun King, Louis XIV

Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history.

How the American Revolution created a global storm.

A voter in a British election in 1923.

A new political climate? The UK's long tradition of winter elections.

Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump.

German submarine on mission in the Atlantic ocean, 1942/1943 (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

World War Two’s secret heroes.

Tourists at Stonehenge

Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap.

The Cunard liner Lusitania

How did Britain react to the sinking of the Lusitania?.

Queen Elizabeth I

"All unperfect and incorrect”: Tracy Borman on the discovery of an Elizabethan gem.

Ragnar Lothbrok. (Illustration by Georgie Gozem for BBC History Magazine)

Ragnar Lothbrok: the legend of the immortal Viking and his sons

Asians in 1980s Britain.

A 15th-century miniature from 'La Vraye Histoire du Bon Roy Alixandre'. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

6 Christmas party tips from the past.

How America captured Christmas.

A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

In pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

A stained glass depiction of the nativity.

The history of the nativity: how much is known about the birth of Jesus?.

Edwardian hat pin head found on the Thames shore. (Photo by Bloomsbury)

Secrets of the river.

A statue of Leif Eriksson, Erik the Red's son, who sailed to North America, c1000 AD. (Image by RF/Getty Images)

Russia, North America and the Middle East: where did the Vikings visit to trade and raid?.

A medieval new England: the Anglo-Saxons’ eastern odyssey.

Lord Mountbatten at a desk

Lord Mountbatten: Did Prince Philip’s uncle attempt to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s government?

Einstein on the run

Einstein on the run: when the brilliant scientist fled to England.

Knole, a house on an epic scale that's now run by the National Trust.

ExploreKnole: the grandest of family homes.

The Mountbattens: success and scandal.

A c1880 Christmas card shows a frog committing murder

Carrots, goblins and killer frogs: an unexpected history of Christmas.