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20th Century

Conrad Nagel and Dorothy Dalton in movie still from Fool's Paradise, 1921.

20th Century

Hollywood in the 1920s: stars, scandals and the end of silent films

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

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Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How ballroom dancing gripped Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Inside Germany’s postwar prisons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&AWhy did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

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Historical cold casesThe mystery of the vanishing widow. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

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Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The British Commonwealth of Nations - Together Poster (Photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Why we should remember…The Statute of Westminster

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The hammer and sickle, seen held aloft by the figures in this Soviet-era statue, symbolised unity between the working class and the peasantry

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When and why did the Soviet Union fall? Your history guide to the USSR

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My history heroJeremy Bowen chooses Vincent Sheean. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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American psychiatry: a tortured history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4The road to resolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Dangerous days. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

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Ben McIntyre on Colditz: "The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable"

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World Cup history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of the display cabinet where the World Cup was stolen

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What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians' verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

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Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

David Dimbleby commands the studio during the May 1997 general election

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BBC at 100Into the digital age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet On The Western FrontWhy its lessons still matter today

On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

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Max Hastings"If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Broken ties & a secret pact. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Tensions mount. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Writing the history of the modern monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tony Blair (Bertie Carvel) and Cherie Blair (Lydia Leonard) in 'The Crown'

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The Crown S5 E10 real history: the HMY Britannia's final voyage, and a political landslide

Princess Diana's 1995 interview with Martin Bashir.

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The Crown S5 E8 real history: Diana’s Panorama interview causes fireworks

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