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A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

6 Battle of Britain myths

A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle

Q&A Why do we say 'Peeping Tom'?

An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses

BBC/See-Saw Films/Nick Wall

“A dead whale or a stove boat”: whaling in the 19th century

An illustration showing a woman 'Arib al-Ma’muniyya, playing an instrument while four men listen. A chess board is in the foreground

‘Arib al-Ma’muniyya: the enslaved medieval woman who sang her way to wealth

An Israeli pilot after the raid on Entebbe

Operation Thunderbolt: Was the 1976 ‘raid on Entebbe’ a brilliant rescue?

Charlie English discusses what an extraordinary art collection reveals about Nazism’s impact on modernist art and people with mental illnesses. (Image by Getty Images)

Hitler’s war on “degenerate art”

Photo of a man on a penny-farthing

Q&A How dangerous was the penny-farthing?

An Anglo-Saxon cross from the church of St Michael

Anglo-Saxon conversion: the coming of the cross (at the point of a sword)

A portrait of a member of the Borgias family

The Borgias: everything you wanted to know

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

A set of Tudor faces laid out on playing cards

Why the Tudors fell for courtly love

Historian Bettany Hughes in front of the Rock of Gibraltar

Bettany Hughes “We were trying to find stories that tell us about resilience – history as a kind of therapy”

Tristram Hunt discusses Josiah Wedgwood; groundbreaking potter, enterprising businessman and political radical. (Image by Getty Images)

Wedgwood: the radical potter

A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.

Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust