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The palace of Versailles: Sun King Louis XIV's ultimate power play

In bed with the Romans: a brief history of sex in Ancient Rome

The real Nazi hunters: how the infamous escaped – and those who brought them to justice

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry V and the battle of Agincourt

Books interviewFame, fortune and falls from grace: Greg Jenner on the rise of celebrity culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The truth about Viking berserkers

First World War

Q&AWhy was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?

Travel to: Oberammergau, Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

News in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coronavirus: a historical perspective. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The dangers of the Blitz spirit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mum hacks: 5 tips for new mothers from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Secrets of a 20th-century Jewish family: Hadley Freeman on her book House of Glass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Before Waterloo: what happened at the Duchess of Richmond's ball?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The woman who gave birth for Hitler

First World War

10 facts you (probably) didn't know about the First World War

Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

Second World War

12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary

Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history

Doctors, playwrights and feminists: meet 6 trailblazing medieval women

How do dictators seize power? The malevolent careers of eight 20th-century leaders explained

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General History

A brief history of human filth: how did people try to keep clean in the past?

A brief history of proposing marriage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Constantine the Great: the emperor who created Europe

Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon Jenkins: "Wales needs to get over England and be Wales again". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Operation Hannibal 1945: the Germany evacuation that dwarfed the 'miracle of Dunkirk'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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