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Medieval

Q&AWhich king thought he was made of glass

Sarah Smith and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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My history heroSarah Smith chooses Eleanor of Aquitaine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mongol and Mamluk cavalry clash in a 14th-century manuscript

Medieval

How to repel a Mongol invasion: the success of Egypt’s Mamluk empire

Saint Michael and the DragonSaint Michael and the Dragon

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DragonsFrom mythological beasts of history to the firebreathers of fantasy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

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Why we should remember…The 19th amendment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police disperse a mob attacking a Hindu temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the violence of Direct Action Day, 1946

20th Century

Why we should remember…Direct Action Day

Craig Charles and Muhammad Ali

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My history heroCraig Charles chooses Muhammad Ali. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

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Behind the newsWhy PMs get the push. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A refugee family in a camp in Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947

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Enduring trauma: the legacy of partition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

20th Century

Why we should remember…The battle of the Bogside

Historian Leanda de Lisle photographed at her home with her dog Millie

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Leanda de Lisle“Henrietta Maria has been looked at far too much through the male gaze”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Richard Nixon's final address: the day the president departed the White House. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

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BBC at 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

General Modern

A brief history of smoking

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Sounds of the Sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

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Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

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A history of science in 10½ objects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

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BBC at 100The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration depicting the Great Fire of London.

Stuart

Your guide to the Great Fire of London, plus 10 surprising facts

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

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Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosalind Franklin as seen in a 1956 photo

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Why we should remember…Rosalind Franklin’s pioneering scientific career. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri"There are other medieval women who we can bring to the foreground". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Count von Stauffenberg

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Why we should remember…The plot to assassinate Hitler and install a new German government. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ross Kemp and Jesse Owens

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My history heroRoss Kemp chooses Jesse Owens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri"Many south Asian diasporic families don’t know of their First World War links". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Newspaper front page with headline 'Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer'

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Why we should rememberThe Roswell Incident. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Estelle Paranque

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Estelle Paranque“Elizabeth I was in charge of her fate. Perhaps that’s why Catherine de Medici despised her”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroRory Stewart chooses Thomas More. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roger II of Sicily, depicted in an Arabic-style image in the Palatine Chapel of the Norman Palace in Palermo

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Normans in AfricaThe 12th-century attempt to forge a north-African Norman kingdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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