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Czechoslovakia’s fate hangs in the balance: the build up to the Munich Conference of 1938. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

Historical recipeCoronation chicken. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

What makes for a good peace?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle for Sicily: breaking into Fortress Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women who served in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

History's greatest mysteriesWhy did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

7 must-see WW2 films, from Schindler’s List to Letters from Iwo Jima

History's greatest mysteriesAgatha Christie disappears. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWho was the Piltdown Man?

Turning points1956: The shock of Suez. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Turning points1916: The long march to modernity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

Christmas feasts with Annie GrayEpisode 4: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Apollo 8: why NASA's Christmas mission to the Moon was a bright end to a dark year. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

Pearl HarborEpisode 5. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The con man who saved Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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