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A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, c1796. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Books interview with Michael Broers: “You don’t have to make up myths about Napoleon’s youth – just look at his letters to see evidence that he was a great leader” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In pictures: Great British Drawings

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call

A group of survivors from the Long March after their arrival in Shenxi in 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The Library Mao: the legend of the Long March

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A brief history of home ownership in Britain

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

History’s most surprising statistics

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“Being in a prison camp was better than going to a British boarding school”: child hostage of Japanese in WW2 reflects on his experience

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Journalist Ruth First, pictured right, at Anti-Apartheid Movement's freedom day rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1965. Also pictured are actor Patrick Wymark (left) and Bishop Reeves (middle). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

My history hero: Ruth First (1925-82) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Alexander Broadie, photographed in the Hungarian Museum. (Photographer: Jeremy Sutton)

History explorer: The Scottish Enlightenment

10,000 BC participants in their Mesolithic-style camp. (Channel 5)

Back to the Stone Age: would you survive?

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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)

“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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5 Sam Willis video interviews with Suzannah Lipscomb, James Holland and other historians

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London

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Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: “What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.