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Churchill's army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War summits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The end of the First World War and the Duke of Wellington. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Suez crisis and the north of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

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History explorer: the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cold War and the history of philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British reserve troops waiting to move up to the forward area during the battle of the Somme, France, 1916. Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Monument to the Spanish Civil War (Dreamstime)

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Spain’s very international civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Books interview with Daniel Todman: "Everything that happened in 1940 isn't somehow down to Winston Churchill". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Operation Barbarossa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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When Britain tamed ‘superman’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Members of Assassins cult kill Conrad I of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

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Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

A group of five marble busts of typical early Roman citizens. The empire expanded by absorbing the peoples it defeated, giving rights and obligations to former outsiders. (Photo by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Monopoly maps: the history of MI9’s secret Second World War escape programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Chateau d'Hougoutmont, Belgium, was the scene of one of the most important battles in British and European history – the battle of Waterloo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Bravery at Waterloo: the button seller and the drummer boy

c1754: Siege of a town led by Godefroy de Bouillon (c1060-1100) 1st Crusade (1095-1099), showing Saracens firing arrows at Crusaders as they attempt to scale the walls. From manuscript of Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Crusades

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Middle East history special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of British troops in World War I

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Q&AWhen were the terms ‘World War I’ and ‘World War II’ coined?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Verdun and the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

French troops under shellfire during the battle of Verdun. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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The LibraryVerdun - hell on Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A brief history of camouflage

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Postwar Germany and medieval CSI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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