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The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.

Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

In search of the real Pocahontas

Programme Name: The Crimson Field - TX: n/a - Episode: Generics (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: (c/w from back left) Sister Joan Livesey (SURANNE JONES), Sister Margaret Quayle (KERRY FOX), Matron Grace Carter (HERMIONE NORRIS), Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Brett (KEVIN DOYLE), Kitty Trevelyan (OONA CHAPLIN), Captain Thomas Gillan (RICHARD RANKIN), Captain Miles Hesketh-Thorne (ALEX WYNDHAM), Corporal Peter Foley (JACK GORDON), Flora Marshall (ALICE ST CLAIR), Rosalie Berwick (MARIANNE OLDHAM) - (C) BBC - Photographer: Todd Anthony

First World War

Behind the scenes of new First World War drama The Crimson Field

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)

Vikings: A land without kings

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British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

The hidden lives of Henry VIII’s six wives

Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy’s The Apocryphal Napoleon imagined what would have happened if the emperor had conquered Russia in 1812 instead of being defeated at Moscow. In this painting, Napoleon retreats from Moscow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The history essay: the past that never was

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The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by: Carl Simon/United Archives/UIG via Getty Images)

How the Vikings ruled the waves . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian at the Movies: The Book Thief . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Alfred the Great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Group photo of Offiers at Holzminden POW camp. (Image provided by Channel 5)

The forgotten first Great Escape of 1918

Politics. Personalities. pic: 3rd October 1977. Anthony Wedgewood-Benn , (Tony Benn) born 1925, Labour MP. at the Labour Party Conference. Credit: Popperfoto.com Ref: PLP

Tony Benn: how will history remember the Labour stalwart?

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General History

Complex Crimea: the history behind the relationship between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea

The Reichstag building on fire

Was the burning of the Reichstag the Nazis’ first crime?