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Captain Cook: Master of the Seas

A portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie), the grandson of James II and VII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The LibraryWhere history happened: The Jacobites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Operation Barbarossa, which began on 22 June 1941, saw more than three million German troops surge into the Soviet Union along a front of more than 1,000 miles. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Barbarossa and Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Saint-Quentin canal, part of the Germans’ Hindenburg Line, which the Allies broke through on Sunday 29 September 1918. (Photo by 2nd Lt. D McLellan/ IWM via Getty Images)

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The LibraryWhy didn’t the Allies march on Berlin in 1918?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Schoolchildren helping workmen construct a new estate of pre-fabricated houses in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1946 following the devastation of the Second World War. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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Postwar squatters: a very British uprising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Alec Clegg was the founder of Bretton Hall College (pictured), a West Yorkshire college specialising in arts and performance. (Photo by Memitina/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Sir Alec Clegg (1909-86). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German Spring Offensive: reserve troops in Saint Quentin on their way to the front, March 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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How the war was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: New Orleans 1858. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Grant's exploding cigar

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Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Devil's Dictionary

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Shakespeare’s Ophelia may have been real

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The Pneumatic Despatch Company

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The BBC Story

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The bravest of the brave

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Stirling Castle skeletons suffered “brutally violent” deaths

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The BBC Story

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Satellite survey identifies lost Egyptian pyramids

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What are the origins of the British taste for black pepper?

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The libertine takes a liberty

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The surprisingly long history of humanity's political development

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Samarkand 1404. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woodcut showing Prince Rupert of the Rhine's pet poodle Boy being killed at the battle of Marston Moor

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The prince and the devil dog: the strange story of Prince Rupert's poodle 'Boy'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Does Russia need an iron fist?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In search of the Dunkirk spirit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Egyptian mummy with heart disease

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A cure for flu?

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Saving the president

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