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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Auschwitz volunteer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How long do popes reign? All you need to know about popes and the papacy

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“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917

Medieval myths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Has there ever been a married Pope?

Confronting a dark past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The real trench runners of WW1

Operation Alberich: the story of Germany’s retreat in 1917. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Vampyre stirs: 200 years of vampire entertainment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another world war?

From Allies to enemies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The filthy Middle Ages?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jumping beans, throwing shoes and weather forecasting: medieval ways to look ahead to the New Year. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Politics, Roman style. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: myth and reality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From musketeers to Macron: 10 remarkable facts about the Sun King, Louis XIV

How did Britain react to the sinking of the Lusitania?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"All unperfect and incorrect”: Tracy Borman on the discovery of an Elizabethan gem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ragnar Lothbrok: the legend of the immortal Viking and his sons

Secrets of the river. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Russia, North America and the Middle East: where did the Vikings visit to trade and raid?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval new England: the Anglo-Saxons’ eastern odyssey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Einstein on the run: when the brilliant scientist fled to England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Carrots, goblins and killer frogs: an unexpected history of Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroSimon Reeve chooses Oskar Schindler (1908–74). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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