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Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Michael X and the British war on black power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Old Trail Town, a collection of historic western buildings and artifacts, located in Cody, Wyoming. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

The University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford

The LibraryHistory explorer: The Oxford Martyrs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III reconsidered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

December 2017

Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Jaipur

The Munich Conference. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The world of the Scythians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What are Henry VIII powers?

England's Norman queens and the power they wielded: an interview with Alison Weir. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The burning of Templars, from ‘De casibus virorum illustrium’ by Giovanni Boccaccio. Found in the collection of the British Library. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Templars: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Starkey on the Reformation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1267 Treaty of Montgomery: a prince’s hope for the future of Wales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tales of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victoria the matchmaker. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&AWhere is Nefertiti’s mummy?

Christianity and the classical world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Ukrainian famine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Florence, Italy

West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, following their journey from Southampton Docks. Originally published in ‘Picture Post’, 1956. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

Clair Wills on immigrants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Italian writer Primo Levi sitting at a desk in his study. Turin, 1981. (Photo by Sergio del GrandeMondadori PortfolioMondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

My history hero: Primo Levi (1919–87). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Addington and Napoleon facing each other across a narrow channel, from a caricature by James Gillray. Illustration from the magazine ‘The Graphic’, 9 July 1881. (Getty Images)

Britain and France: the best of enemies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Knights Templar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

William Marshal: the greatest knight. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The History Hot 100. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.