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Londoners read newspaper headlines about Britain's entry to the Common Market, January 1973. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The reluctant Europeans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

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History explorer: the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"Welcome home, Charlie": Chaplin’s postwar return to London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emil Zátopek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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The running revolutionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cold War and the history of philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British reserve troops waiting to move up to the forward area during the battle of the Somme, France, 1916. Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg, 1933. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Enigma before Bletchley: the German spies who betrayed Hitler to steal codes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&AMein Kampf: what happened to Hitler’s money after his death?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Seve Ballesteros. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011)

Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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1966: when the swing turned sour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

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Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

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There was more to the 80s than Maggie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A revealing history of underwear. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peaky Blinders: behind the scenes with creator Steven Knight. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Valletta skyline – in the centre is St Paul's Anglican Cathedral and Carmelite Church. (Photo by Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Malta

Guillaume Apollinaire and his wife, Jacqueline Kolb, on the terrace of the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France, in 1918. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Chinese lanterns at Kek Lok Si temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. (Photo by Inti St Clair/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Penang, Malaysia

Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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How people make the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

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A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

President Ronald Reagan at Durenberger Republican convention rally, 1982. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

16th century engraving depicting a man with leprosy

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Q&AHow did doctors treat leprosy?

Aquatic Centre Ferry Dock, Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Vancouver, Canada

The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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History explorer: the swinging sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A coffin containing the skeleton of King Richard III sitting in repose inside Leicester Cathedral. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

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Are we blinded by our love of history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mario Lanza c1950. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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