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German Jews in WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bonnie Prince Charlie: hero or coward?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"To destroy a library is to erase part of the cultural memory of humankind": Margaret MacMillan on war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Huguenots vs France: who were the Huguenots and what did they believe?

Second World War

Caught off guard: why didn't America see Pearl Harbor coming?

Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

Laurence ReesHitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

Germans who resisted the Nazis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did conkers help win the First World War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

'Real life battleships': the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

Franco-Prussian War: the conflict that plunged Europe into a nightmare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

War and society: a tangled relationship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

The story of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Falklands War in the air. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black Britons in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What was the Roman Empire's greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9

What was the Varangian Guard? A brief history of the Viking warriors of the Byzantine empire

Your guide to the battle of Flodden 1513

1066: eight days that rocked England

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