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20th Century

A collage of pictures shows a black woman wearing a spotty dress in the foreground to the right. To the left, an image of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by a police officer, with a bus and several slogans in the background

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Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Beyond the trenches: a new take on WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Was it possible to be neutral in World War One?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Beyond the trenches: untold stories of WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Did Franz Ferdinand's death really start World War One?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cold War-era President John F Kennedy leaves St Stephen Martyr Catholic Church in Washington DC — just hours before Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba, defusing the Cold War’s most dangerous standoff.

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The CIA’s most unlikely Cold War weapon? A secret smuggling operation that terrified Soviet censors

A portrait of James Bond author Ian Fleming

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Think James Bond's pure fantasy? His creator's real WW2 missions were more outrageous than you'd believe

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The People's Princess: why Diana captivated the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Mitford

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The real Nancy Mitford: meet the bestselling novelist who betrayed her sister

Diana Mitord

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The real Diana Mitford: society beauty and unabashed fascist

Unity Mitford

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The real Unity Mitford: meet the high society British Nazi who was rumoured to have had Hitler's child

Unity Mitford, Diana Mitford and Nancy Mitford

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The real Mitford Sisters: fascism, communism and Nazism collide in the true story behind Outrageous

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How the Allies won WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A historical reenactor, dressed as a member of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War, takes a selfie with a phone. He is standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC; a Stars and Stripes flag is to his right.

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What is Juneteenth, and why is it celebrated? A historian explains the significance of the holiday today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pauline Black and Billie Holiday

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My history heroPauline Black chooses Billie Holiday. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Barmier than Bond: Ian Fleming's extraordinary wartime escapades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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CIA book smugglers of the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill and Winston the Platypus

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Winston and the platypus: how a bizarre WW2 diplomacy mission to influence Churchill ended in death and tragedy

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"These women transformed his understanding of the world": making Malcolm X. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Third Reich's first genocide. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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D-Day: the spearhead of the invasion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A pink tissue box with a white tissue coming out of it

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From Operation Snuffles to Killer Kleenex: the forgotten history of the secret Cold War experiments in Antarctica has just been uncovered

Captured Boer fighters from General Cronjé’s command sit on the dusty ground near Modder River, awaiting tent assignments in a British prison camp during the Second Boer War (1899–1902).

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She exposed the horrors of Britain’s secret concentration camps – so why was she demonised?

The Enola Gay aircraft, which dropped the first atomic bomb of the Second World War on Hiroshima.

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Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in WW2 justified?

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Calamity Jane: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Spiritual showmen: the 1920s occult. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two boys dressed in thick coats and hats rummage through the ground for potatoes

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Social taboos are violated: a parent must decide which child to feed". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Danny Robins and Harry Price

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My history heroDanny Robins chooses Harry Price

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