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The Dangerous Trade

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Communist sport: Cold War copycats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Burns: the people’s poet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

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Jenkins’ Ear?

Henry VIII: Three films

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

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Talk like a lady

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Rare Chartist pamphlet discovered

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The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

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The price of smoke

Q&AWho was John Parkes, a 'gladiator by profession'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Man may have sailed the sea 130,000 years ago

General prehistory

Skara Brae

General prehistory

Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions

Burma: Why its military dictatorship still survives

Postwar refugees: nowhere to go for Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Karl Marx (1818–83). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 3 historical films about the Japanese attack on the US fleet

The war on witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Royal Tars of Old England

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

John Lennon: Three films

A history of the high street

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