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Nuclear bomb test. (OFF/AFP/Getty Images)

How Britain got the bomb.

BBC History Magazine

Project uses 'crowd-sourcing' to decipher early handwriting

A ceiling fresco depicting Christ. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Christianity under Roman rule: a new church is born.

A coloured engraving from the 16th century depicting Walter Ralegh's arrival in Virginia. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Tudors in America: how England's New World colonies came into being.

Boat trip marks Mary Rose anniversary

Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler (left) pictured with Bill Sparks and Mary Lindell. It was "his ability to take ordinary men and give them the confidence and skills to do extraordinary things" that made him a hero, says Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: ‘Blondie’ Hasler (1914–87).

BBC History Magazine

My generous Daddy

The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

BBC History Magazine

Eric Hobsbawm obituary

Hampton Court Palace

The LibraryWhere history happened: a history of disability.

Second World War

The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler

A relief showing Emperor Constantine's over Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge. (Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)

A big day in history: “A cross of light” leads Constantine to victory.

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000.

Antique double-hemisphere map of the world, complete with landscapes and mythological scenes. (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

5 big questions in global history.

BBC History Magazine

Gasmark 200

BBC History Magazine

Bob Hope's Red Scare

BBC History Magazine

The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The Vikings at home.

Cowdray, West Sussex

Visit historic Carlisle

BBC History Magazine

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Rochester Castle

The "hauntingly beautiful" Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, was never at ease in Vienna's stuffy court. (Getty Images)

A big day in history: a royal icon is stabbed through the heart.

Ptolemy World map. Artist: Germanus, Donnus Nicolaus (ca. 1420-ca. 1490)

Ptolemy's maps: the father of modern Geography.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848.

A British waitress serves American servicemen inside Rainbow Corner, Piccadilly, January 1945. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: life on the home front.

First World War

The Great War

First World War

Why we should celebrate the First World War as well as commemorate it

Shibden Hall, Halifax

Sudley House, Liverpool