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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room

"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bernard Montgomery

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War

John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Was JFK a good president?

Victorian vigour and a remarkable family

BBC History Magazine

The race to save western Europe's 'rarest historic buildings'

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

First World War

Conspiracy to murder?

Disability history

Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Joanna Innes

BBC History Magazine

Vibrations rotate Manchester Museum's ancient statue

JFK and a neglected Tudor, Elizabeth of York

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Professor Richard Alston

A photo of Jackie, Caroline and Jack Kennedy

Unseen photos of John F Kennedy and family

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror

BBC History Magazine

Last living British person born in 1800s dies

BBC History Magazine

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1715

Global history and the rise of the factories

The other Elizabethan England

© Imperial War Museum

Q&AHow old was the youngest known soldier to fight in WW1?

My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Barry

First World War

Slang and swear words 'helped soldiers survive the First World War'

BBC History Magazine

Poppy appeal loses out in trend for 'posh poppies'

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

1914: Why Britain had to go to war