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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.

‘Quacks’: the terrors and theatrics of Victorian medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Arthur feasting at Camelot

Q&AHow old is the ‘British Empire’?

A deadly royal favourite?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

BBC History Magazine

The letters that reveal Horatio Nelson’s secrets

Queen Victoria behind closed doors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The wartime wireless and the lost voice of Cyril Lakin

Migrating to Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Jarrow March. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Florence