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Summer reads 2020: the best history books to take on holiday (or staycation)

Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle, June 2020. “Accounts of the past have failed to properly address persecution,” says Peter Frankopan. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

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Interview: Peter Frankopan on the state of global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Suez canal

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The Kray brothers

Victorian

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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African American abolitionists in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of First Bar, 1841

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Your guide to...the Opium Wars

A stone believed to have magical properties, including the ability to summon rain, from Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Getty Images)

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

The original ‘Big Three’ at Livadia Palace in Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. None of them came away from the summit with everything they had hoped for. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to...The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

Tudor

A brief history of the English rose

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

20th Century

The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

'Tippoo's Tiger', made for Tipu Sultan. (Photo by Alamy)

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Museums and colonialism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Huge sun setting over power lines and palm trees in California. (Photo by Getty Images)

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California’s century of change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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8 historical events that happened in July

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Who’s holding the baby? How working mothers navigated the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak, February 1920. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mel Gibson in a scene from the film 'Braveheart'

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Good drama, bad history: 11 historically inaccurate films you need to watch

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Postcards from the past: a selection of entries from our lockdown competition

Pyongyang wreckage, Korean War

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The Korean War “created a blood debt that is crucial to understanding North Korean behaviour ever since”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War 2. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing – with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

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In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Working mothers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1962: Military personnel in a car pass through the US Army's Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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A brief history of Checkpoint Charlie

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American spotlight: how today’s protests echo historical outrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain and the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of Admiral Horatio Nelson in Trafalgar Square London

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Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

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The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Olusoga on A House Through Time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

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Cooking for Churchill. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

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Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

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Your guide to...the Privy Council

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