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England's Daley Thompson during the high jump event of the decathlon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Emonton, Canada

A brief history of the Commonwealth Games

First World War poets: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stalingrad: a soldier’s testimony. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval monks: a day in the life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 5Treasures of the tomb. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Sounds of the Sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Saint Wilfrid

15 minutes of fameMarc Morris chooses Saint Wilfrid

Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

A history of science in 10½ objects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

The Elgin Marbles: what are they and where are they located?

Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

General History

LeprosyHow has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 9Ends and beginnings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

Episode 4The mystery of Nefertiti. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hannibal: Rome’s greatest nightmare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration depicting the Great Fire of London.

Your guide to the Great Fire of London, plus 10 surprising facts

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image of Elizabeth I, Mary I and Elizabeth of York

How Elizabeth of York paved the way for her granddaughters to rule

Rosalind Franklin as seen in a 1956 photo

Why we should remember…Rosalind Franklin’s pioneering scientific career. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The tombstone of a Roman soldier named Vivius Marcianus.

How the Great Fire of London revealed the city’s Roman past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Tiye

15 minutes of fameJoyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

The partition of India: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.