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After Franco: Spain's miraculous transition to democracy.

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Not 1066 again! Should we ditch our obsession with dates?.

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Spectral beasts and hounds of hell: a spooky history of Britain's ghost dogs.

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Who should decide the stories museums tell?.

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Terror in the deep: how Hitler's U-boats pushed Britain to the brink.

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Michael Wood on China's immense suffering in the Second World War.

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