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The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

20th Century

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers' Flyer and the world's first flight

Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

20th Century

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

Sketch of Pytheas of Massalia standing on the deck of a wooden ship. He was a Greek explorer who claimed to have visited the British Isles

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Q&ADid any ancient Greeks visit Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of members of the Versailles Conference

First World War

Your guide to the Treaty of Versailles

Sketch of Lord Richard Rich

Tudor

Q&ADoes Richard Rich deserve his bad reputation?

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

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What was Christmas like in Britain during WW2?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

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From Joe Lewis to Audrey Hepburn: 10 famous faces of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

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What if…Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shoppers in Liverpool during the 1960s

20th Century

Q&AWhy is the shopping day after Thanksgiving called ‘Black Friday’?

A carving of the Viking gods Odin, Thor and Freyr with a sacrifice above them. It was found on the Swedish island of Gotland (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Viking

Gods, myths and rituals: what we know about Viking religious beliefs

A French manuscript from c1100 shows Viking warriors sailing to Brittany. The Viking Age touched all areas of life and can still be felt today

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What if...The Vikings had never left their homelands?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf.

20th Century

The tragic story behind Sylvia Plath’s writing

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Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A axe stuck in a piece of wood

General Early Modern

Q&AWhy do we say 'bury the hatchet'?

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

20th Century

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

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A homemade ouija board, a treasure hunt and fake madness: the great escape of World War I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration from The Travels of Marco Polo, showing a teenage Marco on the deck of a ship sailing away from Venice

Medieval

Why are Marco Polo's travels so famous?

The fabled ‘Vegetable Lamb of Tartary’ was a plant said to grow sheep as its fruit.

Medieval

Q&AWhat was the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary?

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

A 12-year-old boy with a large bruise on his face ‘pulls threads’ in a New York sweatshop

Victorian

The 19th-century slums of New York

Portrait of John Dee

Tudor

John Dee: Elizabethan 007, scientist, magician and spy

German doctor Otto Warburg at work in his laboratory

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Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a man without a head, but with his face on his chest. This is one of many creatures Sir John Mandeville claimed to have met on his travels

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A knight's (tall) tale: why medieval traveller Sir John Mandeville was more popular than Marco Polo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Bal des Ardents (the 'Ball of the Burning Men'), from 'The Chronicler of European Chivalry' by GG Coulton (London, 1930). The 1393 tragedy claimed the lives of four people. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval

Q&AWhat was the ‘Ball of the Burning Men’?

Tony Robinson as Private Baldrick and Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder

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Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women carrying flags and scythes or beating drums - one has a child on her shoulders - march on the Palace of Versailles to protest to the king

General Early Modern

Women in the French Revolution: fighting for equality

Mário Soares of the Socialist Party basks in public adulation after becoming prime minister in the election of 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

20th Century

Your guide to the Carnation Revolution

Greek soldier Pheidippides arrives in Athens with news of the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon, only to die on the spot

Ancient Greece

Pheidippides: is the ancient Greek marathon runner remembered for the wrong run?

Illustration of the French colonial army departing to fight under Colonel Marchand

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What if...Britain and France went to war during the 1898 Fashoda Incident?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Early Modern

The Bloody Code: your guide to the severe legal system

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