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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?.

Your guide to the Elephant Man

Postwar Germany and medieval CSI.

Chess, gambling and cards: Tudor games and indoor pastimes.

The history of middle-class wine drinking

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

The amazing history of Egypt.

BBC History Magazine

February 2016

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

Q&AWhy do we say ‘happy as Larry’?

Victorian bakers and the Leningrad symphony.

Portrait of Henry V of England

My history hero: Henry V.

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: an interview about her new BBC series

KRISTOFER HIVJU GAME OF THRONES

Game of Thrones: medieval inspiration.

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The LibraryBritain’s tearoom fascists.

5 festive facts from BBC Two’s QI

Clay soldier statues of the Chinese Qin dynasty. (Photo by Getty Images)

The six ages of China.

Christmas celebrations: the old versus the new.

Sex, scandals and betrayals: Charles II and his court

Britain’s railways and the Titanic.

The gruesome remains of prehistoric murder victims uncovered in Europe's bogs.

Photo of a couple holding up a fan

Q&AWhat signals were used in fan language?

Photo of a Canadian postage stamp

Q&AWhen was the first Christmas stamp issued?

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: York Membery

In pictures: John Dee, the 'Elizabethan 007'

In pictures: Frank Sinatra at 100

A history of red hair and amazing animals.

Where, in Ancient Egypt, did people live?

The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain.

John F Kennedy pictured in 1957

My history hero: John F Kennedy (1917–63).

The famous Big Pit Mining Museum in South Wales

History explorer: Britain’s coal industry.