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Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Flower power: how plants transformed the lives of 17th-century women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pauline Black and Billie Holiday

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My history heroPauline Black chooses Billie Holiday. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two men dressed in Tudor clothes stand next to one another against a green curtain backdrop. Between them are several items, including a globe, a hymnbook and a lute

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Tudors in turmoil: deciphering Hans Holbein’s masterwork The Ambassadors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman faces the camera, smiling and resting her head in one hand. She has the other hand resting on her crossed legs. She is wearing a floral jumpsuit

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“Africans have been starved of historical figures from their own lands that they can look up to”: Paula Akpan on female African leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white illustration shows a man in smart clothes slumped in a chair. To the left, a woman in a long skirt and jacket bends over him, taking his pocket watch from him

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Victorian Britain's fearless female felons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"These women transformed his understanding of the world": making Malcolm X. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A white marble sculpture of a man holding his arms across his chest, holding his shoulders

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Rome's worst nightmare: the story of Spartacus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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D-Day: the spearhead of the invasion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Enola Gay aircraft, which dropped the first atomic bomb of the Second World War on Hiroshima.

Second World War

Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in WW2 justified?

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"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two boys dressed in thick coats and hats rummage through the ground for potatoes

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Social taboos are violated: a parent must decide which child to feed". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Danny Robins and Harry Price

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My history heroDanny Robins chooses Harry Price

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From excess soil to resurrection: the many ways Egyptians used wine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white image of a man, a woman, two children and a dog huddled around a cauldron

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Who was to blame for the Irish famine?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on amazing insights into medieval daily life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer holds a photo of a WW2 veteran as they talk at No 10's VE Day street party

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“A reminder of my responsibility to ensure the peace we’ve enjoyed for 80 years continues”: Sir Keir Starmer on VE Day

A black and white photo of a line of young people doing the conga around a bonfire

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"We sang, we danced and we all held hands": celebrating VE Day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A timeless love story? Abélard and Héloïse’s passionate affair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scotland's season of the witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Some say that the first Jews sailed here on King Solomon’s ships”: Kavita Puri on India's long Jewish history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The "outwardly respectable" man who had a body in his basement: how the Dr Crippen case shocked Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroMichael Buerk chooses Robert FitzRoy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

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The conversation“If the culture wars ended, historians would be delighted”: the state of history in 2025. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker's famous banana skirt, which was introduced for Baker’s performance at Paris’s Folies Bergère – an act with which she soon became synonymous.

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Singer, dancer, Nazi-fighter: how Josephine Baker became a WW2 heroine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood: "Why Elon Musk should take a lesson from Confucius". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RAF fliers accompany the bodies of two Nazi airmen being taken to be buried in Edinburgh

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In October 1939, two coffins were wheeled through Edinburgh draped in Nazi flags. But why?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who shot first?Lexington and Concord. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor angels of death: the 16th-century obsession with female killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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