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He shot down 3 planes in 4 minutes: meet the WW2 pilot you won't have heard about.

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The US 'voodoo' scare: why 19th-century racists spread fake news about Haiti.

Star witness: how the Royal Observatory transformed our understanding of astronomy and time.

After Franco: Spain's miraculous transition to democracy.

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

Defendants at the Nuremberg Trials listen to proceedings in 1946. In the front row sit Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner; behind them are Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, and Fritz Sauckel. Together they represent the senior leadership of the Nazi regime held to account for its crimes.

Second World War

“I hope I would have defended the Nazis at Nuremberg”

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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.

Four small terracotta masks in a line. The two in the middle have black hair and beards, one with a white face and the other with an orange face. The ones on either end are plain beige faces.

The making of Rome's monster.

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The Stalingrad of Africa: the story of the battle for Tunis.

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Michael Wood on women's contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry.

A montage of images showing a man standing in the ruins of Hiroshima; a man dressed smartly wearing circular glasses; and a Japanese family with two parents sitting down with five children around them

Senkichi Awaya: the lost mayor of Hiroshima.

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The wrong moustache in the Battle of Hastings.

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Jonathan Healey: “A connection was made between the rarefied world of the royal court and the politics of the street”.

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The Age of Spectacle: Live Aid at 40.

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"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month.

A woman dressed in a grey top and a green and orange bandana holds a black and white photograph of a young man against her chin. She stands in front of a plain, yellow wall

The Srebrenica massacre: the worst atrocity committed on European soil since the Second World War.

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Five things you (probably) didn’t know about the First World War.

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Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation.

Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners".

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years.

When was the worst time to be alive? You'll be surprised at what our expert has to say.

"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator.

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Who was to blame for the Irish famine?.

Mário Soares of the Socialist Party basks in public adulation after becoming prime minister in the election of 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to the Carnation Revolution

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Merchants of doom: the traders who profited from the Black Death.

The Spanish Armada: everything you wanted to know.

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Guillotined in the French Revolution: the bloody story through 7 severed heads