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James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June

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The legacy of the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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Richard I, the Falkland Islands and John Scott Russell: 3 things that happened On This Day 8 June

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"If I don't come home": letters from a D-Day captain

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Benito Mussolini makes a speech. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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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

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Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

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Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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

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A view of Þingvellir National Park in western Iceland. It was here, in AD 930, that Viking settlers established the first pan-Icelandic assembly – possibly the oldest parliamentary body in the world. (© Dreamstime)

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Photo of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

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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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Picture depicting the Battle of Waterloo

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Watercolour painting of the Battle of Agincourt

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Picture of the charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland

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1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

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A depiction of the battle of Naseby

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Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

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A recruitment poster used during the First World War, c1915.

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Gary Sheffield on First World War debate: 'A German victory would have been a disaster for Britain'

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Niall Ferguson: “Britain should have stayed out of First World War”

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