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Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

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Mussolini's March on RomeHow Italy became the first fascist state

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Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why did the Ottoman empire implode?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)

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Brian EpsteinThe brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles

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Female spies who forged the CIA. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Pauli Murray

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Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

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How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Forgotten histories of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)

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Narvik in contextHow battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain

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An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing an astronaut on the moon against a purple sky.

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ConspiracyDid NASA fake the Moon landing?

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A journey along the Iron Curtain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Astor campaigning

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How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

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Edward VIIA guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

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Fleeing revolution: Russian exiles in Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing the Edwardians

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The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

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How FDR transformed the US presidency. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

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Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

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The Great Unrest: what caused the industrial action of 1911–14?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weaponising food in the Third Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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ConspiracyDid Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot and George Meeker, 1932.

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QuizHow well do you know the silent movie era?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

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How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

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Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

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Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

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Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

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Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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