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Why Britain fell in love with the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man winces as he receives a flu vaccination

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How Britain fell in love with the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

NHS nurses holding a baby.

20th CenturyvideoWas there ever a golden age of the NHS?

Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.

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Alice MarbleThe tennis champion with multiple lives

Gussie Moran playing tennis with her lace knickers on show at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.

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10 scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

20th CenturyvideoWindrush at 75Why is arrival of Windrush such a key milestone?

A group of men reading the news aboard the HMT Empire Windrush on arrival at Tilbury in Essex, 22nd June 1948.

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The forgotten history of Windrush. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroSir Keir Starmer chooses Eleanor Roosevelt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

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Living through the Troubles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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How Britain stirred the cauldron of conflict in Palestine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

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Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation

Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald (left) and chancellor Philip Snowden (right) at 10 Downing Street in 1929, two years before they formed a controversial National Government (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Alleged coups and government traitors: conspiracy theories in 20th-century British politics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

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Memorial DayA brief history

The waxing crescent moon rises over frosty rocks near the small settlement of Sligachan, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Junko Tabei and Ang Tsering pictured on the slopes of Everest

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Q&AWho was the first woman to climb Everest?

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.

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EverestThe story of the race to the top of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Patrice Lawrence and Lord Kitchener

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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Everyday life in East Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Charles, aged 4, driving a toy car in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

21st CenturyvideoKing Charles IIIA life in pictures

A dish of coronation chicken

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