July 2025

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"Museums are magical places": Kavita Puri on a new initiative encouraging close encounters with history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A hand in the top right corner is rubbing out the picture on a scroll of paper. Four historical characters watch on and try to stay out of his way

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Michael Wood on the struggle of memory against forgetting | "Place names are signposts to the past". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Five things you (probably) didn’t know about the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Swings and roundabouts: a history of Britain's playgrounds. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From fatal foliage to the perils of ploughing: the Tudor calendar of death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Virgin Queen? Elizabeth I's forbidden love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"England is invincible": How the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroPauline Black chooses Billie Holiday. 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