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History Advent Calendar 2019

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Advent calendar 2019: 24 facts about Christmas through history

A vintage colour postcard, possibly produced to send Christmas greetings from the frontline, somewhere on the Western Front, during the First World War, c1918. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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Christmas10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jumping beans, throwing shoes and weather forecasting: medieval ways to look ahead to the New Year. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Somewhere in between exploitation and empowerment”: James Norton on society osteopath Stephen Ward

The Trial of Christine Keeler. (Photo by BBC)

20th Century

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies: the women at the heart of the Profumo Affair

Mandy Rice-Davies (left) and Christine Keeler

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Notes on a scandal: revisiting the Profumo Affair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The birth of the modern world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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12 facts about the Stuarts

Rotten boroughs cartoon

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9 general election curiosities through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the American Revolution created a global storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tourists at Stonehenge

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Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Cunard liner Lusitania

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How did Britain react to the sinking of the Lusitania?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Asians in 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How America captured Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

20th CenturygalleryIn pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

A statue of Leif Eriksson, Erik the Red's son, who sailed to North America, c1000 AD. (Image by RF/Getty Images)

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Russia, North America and the Middle East: where did the Vikings visit to trade and raid?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A medieval new England: the Anglo-Saxons’ eastern odyssey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Mountbattens: success and scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1880 Christmas card shows a frog committing murder

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Carrots, goblins and killer frogs: an unexpected history of Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oskar Schindler, who prevented hundreds of Jews from being murdered in the Holocaust

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History heroSimon Reeve chooses Oskar Schindler (1908–74). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

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Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

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From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

A 'Thanksgiving Greetings' postcard. (Photo by K.J. Historical/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A brief history of Thanksgiving. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A waitress working behind the counter at the first ever Lyons tea shop to be opened in London, 1953

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The teashop empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Harlech Castle with Snowdonia in the background.

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A brief history of Wales: the resilient nation

The ninth-century Alfred Jewel, adorned with the inscription: "Alfred ordered me to be made". This masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art is thought to have been an aestel, a pointer used to follow text. (Picture by Alamy)

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10 ways the Anglo-Saxons changed the course of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas governor John Connally ride through the streets of Dallas

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The assassination of JFK: an eyewitness account. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking ships arriving in Britain, c1130. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty

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From the raid on Lindisfarne to Harald Hardrada's defeat: 8 Viking dates you need to know

The queen's visit to the Welsh village of Aberfan

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“No match for reality”: the missing history in The Crown series three. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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