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Women's rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrayal of the Charge of the Light Brigade

Victorian

The Charge of the Light BrigadeWho blundered in the Valley of Death?

Reeta Chakrabarti and Janusz Korczak

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My history heroReeta Chakrabarti chooses Janusz Korczak. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroIain Dale chooses Ronald Reagan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The solid gold death mask of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, now held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Photo by Fayed El-Geziry/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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TutankhamunThe Egyptian boy who really discovered the Boy King. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

20th Century

Mussolini's March on RomeHow Italy became the first fascist state

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My history heroSam Naz chooses Noor Inayat Khan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A witch feeds her familiars in this illustration from the 1579 pamphlet about Windsor woman Elizabeth Stile (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Forgotten TudorsWhat the lives of ordinary people tell us about Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

A Japanese tattoo artist at work on a large scale tattoo design on the back of a woman, Japan, circa 1940.

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Tattoo historyThe stories of 11 inked individuals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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OpinionWhy the Edwardian era remains relevant today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)

Second World War

Narvik in contextHow battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain

An Edwardian family seated at a dinner table

Edwardian

What was life like for women in Edwardian Britain?

Nancy Astor campaigning

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How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

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Mavia Of TanukhWarrior queen of Arabia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diners watch a waitress chalk up the dishes offered on the day's menu at a British Restaurant in Gillingham, 1941. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/ Popperfoto via Getty Images)

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Eat for victory: the British Restaurants of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The remains of the Amesbury Archer (2400-2200BC), a burial found near Stonehenge and about 4300 years old, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.

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Britain’s greatest archaeological discoveries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An effigy of Henry III

Plantagenet

The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England's ultimate family drama

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

20th Century

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Emblema of Cleopatra Selene

Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra's daughter: the tragic inheritance to triumphant reign of Cleopatra Selene

Illustration of figures holding hand

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The long fight over abortion rights in the United States. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

General Modern

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today's industrial action

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

Second World War

Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

Victorian

A brief history of Boxing Day

Alexander the Great dressed as a Byzantine emperor

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The remarkable afterlife of Alexander the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

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Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A montage of images, including: Ukrainians in Rome protest against the Russian invasion; 2: Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai- shek (right) in 1949, when he retreated to Taiwan; 3: The future Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III, 1950; 4: Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and prime minister Liz Truss, October 2022

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2022: The historians’ view. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

20th Century

Q&AWhy did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Victorian

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

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