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Serhii Plokhy discusses the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and reveals just how close the world came to nuclear disaster. (Image by Getty Images)

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dr Ben Raffield explains how in the ninth and tenth centuries, Scandinavian laws and customs prevailed across a swathe of what’s now northern and eastern England. (Image by Getty Images)

The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Harriet Atkinson takes us back to 1951’s Festival of Britain, a celebration of a nation rising from the ashes of war. (Image by Getty Images)

Britain’s great postwar party . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was a key moment in the reign of King Richard II. New research is revealing just how well-organised an operation it was. (Image by Getty Images)

The Peasants’ Revolt: who were the rebels of 1381? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women fighters of the Jewish resistance with Judy Batalion

Women fighters of the Jewish resistance . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Linda Colley explores how written constitutions, together with warfare, forged the modern world. (Image by Getty Images)

How constitutions changed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nathen Amin discusses the plots and conspiracies that threatened to unseat Henry VII from his throne. (Illustration by Eleanor Taylor)

The pretenders who threatened Henry VII’s crown . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Joanna Bourke explores what ideas about ‘evil women’ can tell us about societal values through history. (Image by Getty Images)

Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jonathan Dimbleby revisits the dramatic, murderous struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Catherine Fletcher discusses what is known about the private life and relationships of the Renaissance polymath, and considers the historical inspirations for the new TV drama Leonardo. (Image by Getty Images)

Leonardo da Vinci’s private life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson, creators of the new drama 'Leonardo' starring Aidan Turner, talk about the inspirations behind their series on the Renaissance polymath. (Image by © Fabio Lovino)

Leonardo: bringing Da Vinci to the screen . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history. (Image by Steve Sayers)

Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elaine Farrell shares the stories of Irish women incarcerated in the 19th century, from daily prison routines to relationships with staff and contact with the outside world. (Image by Getty Images)

Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.