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Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy’s The Apocryphal Napoleon imagined what would have happened if the emperor had conquered Russia in 1812 instead of being defeated at Moscow. In this painting, Napoleon retreats from Moscow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The history essay: the past that never was. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by: Carl Simon/United Archives/UIG via Getty Images)

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How the Vikings ruled the waves. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Group photo of Offiers at Holzminden POW camp. (Image provided by Channel 5)

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The forgotten first Great Escape of 1918. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tony Benn: how will history remember the Labour stalwart?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Complex Crimea: the history behind the relationship between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea

The Reichstag building on fire

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A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, c1796. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Books interview with Michael Broers: "You don't have to make up myths about Napoleon's youth – just look at his letters to see evidence that he was a great leader". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of survivors from the Long March after their arrival in Shenxi in 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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A brief history of home ownership in Britain

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

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History’s most surprising statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Being in a prison camp was better than going to a British boarding school”: child hostage of Japanese in WW2 reflects on his experience. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Journalist Ruth First, pictured right, at Anti-Apartheid Movement's freedom day rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1965. Also pictured are actor Patrick Wymark (left) and Bishop Reeves (middle). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Historian Alexander Broadie, photographed in the Hungarian Museum. (Photographer: Jeremy Sutton)

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History explorer: The Scottish Enlightenment

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Back to the Stone Age: would you survive?

Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

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“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 Sam Willis video interviews with Suzannah Lipscomb, James Holland and other historians

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

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Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

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Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portrait of a young Queen Victoria, c1850, by F Winterhalter

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How the killing of Queen Victoria’s personal chef changed Anglo-German relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A recruitment poster used during the First World War, c1915.

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Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gary Sheffield on First World War debate: 'A German victory would have been a disaster for Britain'

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My favourite historical places: Professor Rebecca Earle

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