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1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guitarist David Crosby of the Byrds performs with his band in front of a large crowd at the Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais, June 1967. (Image by © Henry Diltz/Corbis)

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From Ancient Greece to Glastonbury: a brief history of music festivals

Netta holds the Eurovision trophy aloft while singing the winning song for Israel at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest grand final

Eurovision history: from the first competition to the story behind voting blocs

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)

Brian Epstein The brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing

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Pod John Higgs WL

Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

BBC at 100 The Third Programme: a cultural institution

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

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Laura Mvulu and Thelonius Monk

My history hero Laura Mvula chooses Thelonious Monk . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The life and death of Elvis Presley

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Eurovision: a political history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton

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Q&A How did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?

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How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.