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British infantry shelter in trenches

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Trench tactics: how was war fought in the WW1 trenches?

Sisters in arms: women at war during WW1.

Soldiers in First World War uniform eat in the trenches

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Life in the trenches during WWI: your essential guide

A French soldier pictured next to wrecked German lorries.

Could WW1 have ended in 1916?.

An older man sitting against a desk, looking towards the camera.

Jonathan Sumpton on the Hundred Years’ War: “It was Joan of Arc who persuaded the French that they could win”.

The Second Barons’ War: everything you wanted to know.

A portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) during the Napoleonic Wars. Although Waterloo was "undeniably the most pivotal battle of this campaign", it was not the final battle against France, says Jem Duducu. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Napoleonic Wars

The taking of Jerusalem by the Crusader

The First Crusade: your ultimate guide

A fifteenth century manuscript illustration showing the Knights Templar being burned in the presence of King Philip IV of France.

Templars on trial: why were the Knights accused of such heinous crimes?.

Robert the Bruce addresses his troops ahead of Bannockburn in a 20th-century engraving.

Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?

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Overwhelming odds and inevitable invasions: 3 myths surrounding the Battle of Britain

A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword.

Men of the 23rd US Infantry in France, 1918. The Western Front w ould not have even come into existence had the Schlieffen Plan been executed successfully. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What if…The Schlieffen plan had been successful?.

What should we make of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon?

A c1943 photograph of USS Indianapolis. Built in New Jersey, the Portland-class heavy cruiser was launched in 1931 (Photo by US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS Indianapolis.

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

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What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”.

The city of Hiroshima, Japan, a few days after the first atom bomb is dropped in August 1945. This clearly demonstrated the apocalyptic potential of the new weapon (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution.

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly.

The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know.

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war.

Mathematician and Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing played a key role in deciphering the Enigma code (Photo by Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if...The Enigma code had not been cracked by Alan Turing and Bletchley Park?.

Picture depicting the Battle of Worcester

The battle of Worcester: Cromwell’s last battle.

Roundheads and Cavaliers: where did the Civil War nicknames come from?

Painting depicting the Battle of Naseby

The battle of Naseby: what happened?

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?