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A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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French Republican Calendar

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Wars of music

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Imperial Endgame

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Wrong number

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Do we need a museum of British history?

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Mao’s Great Famine

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A British institution

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The winner of our Tudor quiz has been announced

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Rudolf Hess's grave is exhumed

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Pronounced how?

Field Marshal Harold Alexander, pictured in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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My history heroField Marshal Harold Alexander (1891–1969). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Hitler's secret weapon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s waterways have enjoyed a renaissance since the Second World War. (Photo by George W Johnson/Getty Images)

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History explorer: Britain’s inland waterways. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of a funerary monument from Athens, Greece depicting a squire taming a horse. Holding elaborate funerals was one of the many ways in which aristocrats broadcast their great wealth. (Photo By DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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The trouble with luxury. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Saracen attack on Crusaders, from the French manuscript 'Chroniques de Saint Denis', c1200. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Traders and crusaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: Constantinople 976. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Prussian showman

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The invention of the bathtub

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The British Confederate

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Politicians should resist the urge to invoke the wartime spirit

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The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

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The making of Wales

In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captain Kidd

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The sacrifice of Captain Kidd. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World

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The New Bath Guide

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Nazis 'planned gas attack' on Britain

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Bismarck: A Life

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