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The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler

Antique double-hemisphere map of the world, complete with landscapes and mythological scenes. (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

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5 big questions in global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A relief showing Emperor Constantine's over Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge. (Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)

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A big day in history: “A cross of light” leads Constantine to victory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

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Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gasmark 200

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Bob Hope's Red Scare

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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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The Vikings at home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

The "hauntingly beautiful" Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, was never at ease in Vienna's stuffy court. (Getty Images)

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A big day in history: a royal icon is stabbed through the heart. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ptolemy World map. Artist: Germanus, Donnus Nicolaus (ca. 1420-ca. 1490)

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Ptolemy's maps: the father of modern Geography. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British waitress serves American servicemen inside Rainbow Corner, Piccadilly, January 1945. (Getty Images)

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Where history happened: life on the home front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Digitisation project sheds new light on Home Guard

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The Georges

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

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9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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The correct piece of paper

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Was there ever an execution where rain saved someone from being burned at the stake?

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The Day Parliament Burned Down

Detail of a column showing Norman soldiers, c12th century. (CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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In search of the Normans: who were they?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The White Tower, one of the oldest parts of the Tower of London complex, was built by William the Conqueror. (Getty Images)

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Castles of the Conqueror

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Wreck sites under threat

A Victorian drawing room with pictures in heavy frames and ornately covered furniture, c1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Where history happened: Victorian collectors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bruges 1386. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of the Nile, fought at night in the Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria. (Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain’s 10 most significant naval battles

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My history hero: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Moscow 1980: going to the games. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi's body to be exhumed

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