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A coal mine explosion, the birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne, and the first Briton in space: 5 things that happened On This Day 19 May

Alfred Hitchcock greets a crowd

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10 facts about… Alfred Hitchcock

American actor and singer Howard Keel records 'Kiss Me Kate' with his co-star Patricia Morrison, 1964. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The growing pains of BBC Two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

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Britain in the 1970s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy’s The Apocryphal Napoleon imagined what would have happened if the emperor had conquered Russia in 1812 instead of being defeated at Moscow. In this painting, Napoleon retreats from Moscow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The history essay: the past that never was. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of survivors from the Long March after their arrival in Shenxi in 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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A brief history of home ownership in Britain

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

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Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The front cover of a 1924 edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

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Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Cold War in your living room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

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Global history and the rise of the factories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

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The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

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Bright ideas

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Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President John F Kennedy speaking at a press conference, c1963. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

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Q&A: If President Kennedy hadn’t been wearing a back brace when he was assassinated, would he have lived?

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Great Train Robbery gang: first-class thieves or criminals who got lucky?

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The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire

George G Meade, best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E Lee at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. (Photo by Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

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Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

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Royal Gunpowder Mills, Essex

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