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The German view on the First World War

Historian at the Movies review: Hercules

A detail of a fresco of Hannibal riding his elephant. It is estimated he took as many as 40 elephants when he marched an army across the Alps and into northern Italy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many elephants did Hannibal take over the Alps?

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

Richard III and dirty Tudors

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

How the Wild West was spun

First World War

10 things you (probably) didn't know about the bloody eastern front in 1914

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

Photo of a poppy growing in a preserved WWI trench

First World War

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Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

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Relief of a charioteer

Q&AWho was the highest-paid sportsman in history?

Photo of Uruguay football players celebrating victory

Q&AWho won the first FIFA World Cup?

The Mill: behind the scenes of the new series

A letter-writer depicted by Janez Subic, c1878. (© Getty)

The great Victorian letter swindle

A portrait of Richard III.

Inside the mind of Richard III

Crowds in Coronation Park, Delhi, celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryDid Britain make the modern world?

The World War Two French resistance and British holidays

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history heroNelson Mandela (1918-2013)

William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

History explorer: The English landscape garden

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth

7 Victorian jokes have been given a modern twist - and they're hilarious

10 amazing Punch magazine sketches from 1859 to 1981

BBC History Magazine

History teachers' body reacts to Michael Gove's education secretary replacement

Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

Delphi and the Spanish empire

Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014

How did it become a gesture of well-wishing to say to an actor before they go on stage "break a leg"? (Photo by Andrys Lukowski via iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Break a leg’?

Historian at the Movies: Belle reviewed

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