Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

20th Century

Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic

Adolf Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun, in the early to mid-1940s. The pair married on 29 April 1945, the day before they committed suicide together. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Eva Braun: life with Adolf Hitler

Bemused families in Narodychi, Ukraine watch neighbours preparing to leave home shortly after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, just 50 miles (80km) to the east. The Soviet state proposed to re-house rural inhabitants in badly affected districts, but many preferred to stay despite (or perhaps unaware of the danger of) the high radiation detected by Geiger counters. (Photo by Igor Kostin/Sygma via Getty Images)

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Eyewitness account: the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British military behind a barricade, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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The Easter Rising: when Ireland went to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Notre Dame of Paris at first light (Photo by Captblack76-Dreamstime.com)

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The photogenic Trevi Fountain is a highlight of most visits to Rome. (Image by Getty Images)

Roman

My favourite place: Rome, Italy

Melvyn Bragg speaks to the History Extra podcast about the 12th-century love story of Heloise and Abelard. (Photo by Awakening/Getty Images)

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Melvyn Bragg on Heloise and Abelard. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1943: Soldiers enjoy a baseball match at Wembley Stadium in London between the United States Army and Canadian Forces. With them sits Bobby, the mascot of the Canadian Highland Scottish regiment. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

General ModerngalleryAnimals at war: 12 amazing pictures

The food served at the wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell may be inspired by accounts of ancient Roman excess, says Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. (© Home Box Office, Inc/Sky Atlantic)

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Power plays and scheming queens: the ancient history behind Game of Thrones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gerald Heard had a peculiar idea that the UFOs then being sighted all across the globe, as such as this ‘sighting’ in Sicily, were piloted not by humanoid ETs, as you may have presumed, but by alien super-bees from Mars. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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6 of history’s strangest ever theories about outer space. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A US soldier teaching two junior 'rookie' recruits how to clean a gun during the First World War

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7 things you (probably) didn’t know about America’s entry and involvement in the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British Indian soldiers stand at attention prior to inspection at Singapore, December 1941. (Photo by Alamy)

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World War Two’s ‘ordinary’ soldiers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nationalist troops escort captured Republican militia during the Spanish Civil War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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The Spanish Civil War: an avoidable tragedy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A French print by the Thierry bothers depicting the appearance of the landscape and inhabitants of the Moon

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How to carry off a great hoax. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An ancient Roman relief shows a midwife delivering a baby. Many midwives had other occupations, and undertook the task as a contribution to their community. (Wellcome Images)

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Call the (Roman) midwife

In only two years, Hernán Cortés brought about the downfall of an efficient military civilisation through a combination of diplomacy, warfare, tactics, luck and sheer force of personality, writes Caroline Dodds. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Tudor

Cortés and Montezuma: the conquering of Tenochtitlan

Towards the end of the third century BC, the First Emperor of China sought to make his new state immortal by shielding it with what would be the earliest predecessor to the Great Wall. (Photo by Jean-Luc PETIT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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A brief history of border walls – from 2,000 BC to Trump’s Mexico wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren. Kaiser Wilhelm II is pictured left in the front row. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Friends, family and rivals: Queen Victoria and the European empires

Prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Viking ships sailing towards unknown land. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The global Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The legendary Varangian (Viking mercenary) Rurik and his brothers arrive in Staraya Ladoga. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Global Vikings: how the impact of the raiders and traders went far beyond Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"It was in Ireland that King John revealed himself as a monster," writes Nicholas Vincent. (Image by Alamy)

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Pocket-sized paintings: Elizabethans in miniature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A rocky relationship: Eleanor of Woodstock with her husband, Reginald II of Guelders. (Photo by Alamy)

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The medieval rebel princesses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus, which boasts superb acoustics and aesthetics. (Photo by Alamy)

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My favourite place: the Peloponnese, Greece

A c1830 portrait of the scandalous but sublimely talented Lorenzo da Ponte. (Photo by Alamy)

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Comedian Rhona Cameron and political activist Peter Tatchell help to hold a banner at an LGBT Pride event in London, 1998. (Photo by Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Is it true that an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their own prime minister in 1672? (Illustration by Glen McBeth)

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Q&AIs it true that an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their own prime minister in 1672?

British military behind a barricade in Dublin, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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Bullets and ballot boxes: a history of Anglo-Irish relations since the Easter Rising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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