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Ancient Egypt

The dark side of ancient Egypt

The British Commonwealth of Nations - Together Poster (Photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

20th Century

Why we should remember…The Statute of Westminster

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sæberht of Essex, who oversaw the building of London’s original church of St Paul’s (Photo by The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo)

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How to survive the Dark Ages in Britain: 6 crucial tips. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroJeremy Bowen chooses Vincent Sheean. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

Second World War

Ben McIntyre on Colditz: "The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable"

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians' verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

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Max Hastings"If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A German soldier captured during the battle of Kursk, July–August 1943. Germany’s last major offensive on the eastern front ended in crushing defeat (Photo by STF/AFP/ GettyImages)

Second World War

Bitter end: Hitler's downfall and the end of the war and the Third Reich

King Henry V (left) in a late-16th- or early 17th-century portrait by an unknown artist; and his son Henry VI (right) in a c1500s portrait (Photos by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Plantagenet

Why Henry VI’s reign was such a disaster

Theban mural showing people plucking geese. (Photo by DEA / G Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

Life in Ancient Egypt: what was it like?

circa 1923: A Remembrance Day poster issued by the British Legion after World War One, reminding people to wear a Flanders poppy on November 11th. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Why we should remember...When the paper poppy became a symbol of remembrance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The letter that betrayed the gunpowder plotters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Egyptologist Howard Carter crouches near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun's remains

Ancient Egypt

Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun: was the tomb really cursed?

A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

Second World WargalleryThe stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich

An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Victorian

Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

Afghan fighters on top of a destroyed Soviet helicopter, 1980 (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)

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War without end: conflict in Afghanistan, from the Cold War Soviet invasion to the Taliban. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prime minister and king in black and white photo

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Q&APrior to 2022, has there ever been a new monarch and prime minister in Britain in the same week?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the Luttrell Psalter, c1330, gives an idealised insight into everyday life in 14th-century rural England

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Life as a medieval peasantHow accurate are depictions on screen?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Protesters gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the 2003 Hutton inquiry into claims, broadcast on the BBC, that the case for war in Iraq had been “sexed up”.

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BBC at 100Rocked by scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jazz singer Adelaide Hall at Radiolympia, 1947

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BBC at 100Entry into the television age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anthony Eden addresses BBC cameras in 1956

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BBC at 1001950s friction between government and the BBC. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Rose being risen from the sea (Picture by Alamy))

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Raising the Mary RoseThe quest to save Henry VIII's lost warship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Mary Rose shown in the Anthony Roll (1546), a record of Henry VIII’s navy

Tudor

Six theoriesWhat caused the Mary Rose to sink?

Russian men called up to fight attend a ceremony to mark their departure

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Russia-Ukraine conflictHow the latest developments echo the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hilary Mantel, pictured in Oxford in 2017

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Hilary Mantel remembered“She changed the way we think about history”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

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My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scene of the 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' at the Disney World in Orlando, Florida, 1971

20th Century

Why we should remember...The day Walt Disney World Resort in Florida welcomed its first guests

The skeleton exhumed from beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. The remains contained features matching Tudor descriptions of Richard III, and injuries to the skull and body inflicted at the battle of Bosworth in 1485

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Rediscovering Richard IIIThe story of how a lost king was found. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A missionary preaches to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, c1650. By now, colonists were imposing their values on the indigenous population, encouraging them to dress like the English – and worship the English God. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Britain's nuclear fearsHow has the UK prepared for Armageddon?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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