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Why we should remember...The pioneering use of ether. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

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Kwasi Kwarteng"Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient Egyptian papyrus showing cursive hieroglyphs

Ancient Egypt

HieroglyphsYour guide to the mysterious script of the ancient Egyptians

The Rosetta Stone

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The rivalry behind the translation of the Rosetta Stone. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adam Henson and Robert Bakewell

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My history heroAdam Henson chooses Robert Bakewell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The USSR showcases its military might at the 1961 annual May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

Cold War

Nuclear fall-out: how the USA & USSR became bitter enemies

The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Georgian

5 of the worst years in British history

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini's willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A loan transaction being recorded in a ledger, shown in a work by Marinus Van Reymerswaele

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Medieval money tricks and the modern world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British writer Hilary Mantel photographed at home

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Hilary Mantel on the secrets of successful historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, shown in profile

Medieval

Why we should remember…the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Second World War

Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

Lucy Worsley. (Photography by Frank Monks)

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Lucy Worsley“Agatha Christie’s mysterious disappearance in 1926 was the central injustice of her life”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth wearing a hat against a blue background

20th Century

In picturesQueen Elizabeth II through the decades

The statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester set against a blue sky background

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Excavating Winchester: the dig that changed (urban) history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ian Hislop and Alfred the Great

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My history heroIan Hislop chooses Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victims of the February Revolution are carried through the Field of Mars in Petrograd

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Russia's Civil WarWhy the 1917 uprisings descended into disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

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Why we should remember…the first Partition of Poland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops engaged in street fighting in the battle of Stalingrad,1942 (Photo from akg-images)

Second World War

The battle of Stalingrad: a German officer's account of WW2's bloodiest battle

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris who is medical historian and has written a new book called ‘the Facemaker’ about WW1 facial reconstruction

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris“This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero, but losing a face made you a monster”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

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What brought a thaw in the Cold War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The uniform worn by pupils at Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham. (Photo by Rex Features)

Tudor

The history of school uniforms

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Edward Jenner

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My history heroDame Sarah Gilbert chooses Edward Jenner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

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Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

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Beyond fashion: 6 accessories that reveal changing attitudes in society, from the Georgians to the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

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BBC at 100How EastEnders saved the BBC. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ilustration showing thorned brambles growing up the nervous system of a pink torso, the brambles at the bottom of the piece are growing in the shape of a uterus, and there are blackberries where the ovaries should be. A blue, gloved hand is coming in from the left to pluck at the ovary blackberry, and another gloved hand coming in from the right is using gardening secateurs to cut one of the branches. A metaphor for endometriosis, and in a broader sense, women's medical neglect and oppression

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The gender pain gap: perceptions of women's health through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A third-century monument of a Roman woman having her hair styled by slaves, from Germany. High-status women on the frontiers, including at Hadrian's Wall, tried to follow the latest Roman fashions (Photo by DEA / M. BORCHI / Getty Images)

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Roman Britain: what six objects can reveal about life for women at Hadrian’s Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing woman receiving a caesarean section

General History

Q&AWhat are the origins of the caesarean section?

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