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Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)

1848: the year of revolutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

After 200 years of strife, who will win the battle for Egypt?

Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Is Blackadder bad for First World War history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Beyond the Hitler diaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite historical places: Dr Marc Morris

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Khudadad Khan

My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ed Morrison with Nelson Mandela. (Image: Ed Morrison)

When I met Mandela: 1995 Rugby World Cup final

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Elaine Farrell

Renewed debate over battle of Hastings location

Nelson and Winnie Mandela days after his release, 1990. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis)

Nelson Mandela: “a symbol of the struggle against racism”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Julie Barrau

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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

"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bernard Montgomery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Was JFK a good president?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.