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A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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6 Battle of Britain myths

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

A group of fighter pilots of No. 32 Squadron relax beside their Hawker Hurricane Mk I fighters at RAF Hawkinge in July 1940

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The Few: who exactly were the heroes of the Battle of Britain?

Adolf Hitler photographed with Nazi war generals

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What was Operation Sealion, Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain? And why was it cancelled?

Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Painting by Emile Signol (1804–1892), (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Blog Medieval(ish) matters 11: Did women fight in the crusades? And why did people follow a goose to the Holy Land?

The bronze equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce looks out over the site of the Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, where the Scottish fought for their independence from the English in 1314. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask

A 13th-century illumination showing the coronation of Foulques and Melisende. (Photo by Alamy)

Women and the crusades

Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Marston Moor. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

ON THIS DAY 2 July 1644, the battle of Marston Moor

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?

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World War Two: the challenge of commemoration

Charles Edward Stuart, aka 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

Queen Emma and her sons

Exclusive podcast William and Cnut: a tale of two conquerors

Pyongyang wreckage, Korean War

The Korean War “created a blood debt that is crucial to understanding North Korean behaviour ever since”

This photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War 2. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing – with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

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In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Simo Häyhä, said to be the deadliest sniper in history

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The world’s deadliest sniper: Simo Häyhä