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A picture of Freddie Mercury. He is wearing a white vest top with white jeans and he is holding a guitar behind his head. At the top of the guitar, a bright white light shines

The Age of Spectacle: Live Aid at 40. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A multicoloured photo collage, including an Indian soldier in WW1 military uniform, a woman dressed in dark jacket, cap and tie

"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two men dressed in military uniform stand behind a barbed wire, looking into the camera. One wears a bandage around his head, covering one eye

Five things you (probably) didn’t know about the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A collage of pictures shows a black woman wearing a spotty dress in the foreground to the right. To the left, an image of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by a police officer, with a bus and several slogans in the background

Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When was the worst time to be alive? You'll be surprised at what our expert has to say. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white image of a man, a woman, two children and a dog huddled around a cauldron

Who was to blame for the Irish famine?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Illustration showing the traders who made a fortune during the wake of the Black Death

Merchants of doom: the traders who profited from the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

An illustration of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII.

Did the Tudors invent the Wars of the Roses?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.