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Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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Is Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The history of middle-class wine drinking

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Arsenic: a brief history of Agatha Christie’s favourite murder weapon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

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Q&AWhy do we say ‘happy as Larry’?

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

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Britain’s railways and the Titanic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In pictures: Frank Sinatra at 100

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The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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7 phases of the history of Artificial intelligence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The end of the Cold War and British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Frank McEachran: the real-life model for The History Boys’ star Hector. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

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10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

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Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

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Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Suffragette: ‘a moving and inspiring film that must be seen’

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A brief history of Royal Navy search & rescue 1915–2015. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

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Simon Schama's portraits of a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II

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In pictures: The Blitz

Winston Churchill with a bulldog mascot as he leaves the Wanstead Conservative Club in his Woodford, Essex constituency on general election day, 23 February 1950. (Photo by Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat is the significance of the British Bulldog?

A 'full English' breakfast

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Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?

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Q&AWhere does the word ‘posh’ come from?

The ‘Spruce Girls’ wearing their specially made wooden bathing suits in 1929. (Credit: © Historic Collection / Alamy)

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6 weird inventions in history

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Life of the Week: Andy Warhol

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda

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The daily hustle and bustle in the busy fishing port of Newlyn in Penzance, Cornwall, c1870. (Photo by Gibson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Top 10 historical Cornish words

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In pictures: Blackpool beach through time

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