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When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

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Lucy Worsley on royal history's biggest fibs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Solon, an Athenian statesman (left) laid the foundations for democracy

Ancient Greece

Your guide to...the history of democracy

Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

Roman

What was the Roman Empire's greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

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Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An empty knight's armor sitting on a chest.

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Q&AHow did knights in armour go to the toilet?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman

Your guide to the Roman empire: when it was formed, why it split and how it failed, plus its most colourful emperors

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

Georgian

Your guide to...transportation to Australia

Famous Victorians: Emily Bronte and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Victorian

7 famous Victorians: from Brontë to Brunel

Photo of Abraham Lincoln

Victorian

Q&ADid Abraham Lincoln’s beard win him the election?

Painting of Pope Callixtus II, the first Borgia pope, though it would be his nephew Rodrigo (later Pope Alexander VI) who would earn great infamy

Renaissance

Your guide to...the Borgias

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

20th Century

Rasputin: the 'mad monk' who became a friend to the Romanovs

Limestone relief depicting a a procession of courtiers paying homage to the Ahiram, king of the Phoenician city of Byblos

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Phoenicians

Napoleon watches on as the fighting at Waterloo unfolds in this 1843 painting

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What if…Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

Stuart

5 facts about the Mayflower

A Hawker Hurricane in flight over Britain

Second World War

Your guide to the Battle of Britain: how the RAF turned back the Luftwaffe

AFS firemen tackle a blitz fire amidst the rubble surrounding St Paul's Cathedral, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to the Blitz, plus 9 places affected by the bombings

It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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Women detectives: meet the Victorian female super sleuths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1851 Great Exhibition’s west wing

Victorian

The 1851 Great Exhibition: inside the Victorian spectacle

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

Engraving depicting a scene from the battle of Crécy, during the Hundred Years' War. Dated 14th Century. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Plantagenet

The battle of Crécy: triumph of the longbow

King George VI and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth

20th Century

The death of King George VI: what happened?

Roman

What are Roman numerals, where do they come from and how do you read them?

People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

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Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War

Roman

Your guide to...the Punic Wars

Genghis Khan

Medieval

Genghis Khan: the Mongol warlord who almost conquered the world

Roman republic

Roman

Your guide to the Roman Republic

Iron Age bronze head

Iron Age

The Celts in Britain: everything you need to know

Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer

Roman

Your guide to...the fall of Rome

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