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Sujit Sivasundaram offers a new perspective on the expansion of the British empire across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. (Image by Getty Images)

Imperialism on the oceans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Giles Tremlett discusses how more than 35,000 volunteers from across the globe fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. (Image by Getty Images)

The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robert Colls discusses the importance of sport to English society over the past 200 years. (Image by Getty Images)

England’s sporting obsession . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kenneth Austin explores what impact the Reformation had on Europe’s Jewish communities. (Image by Getty Images)

How did the Reformation impact Jews? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Maaza Mengiste on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Ethiopia 1935: The real history behind The Shadow King . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Edith Hall on the HistoryExtra podcast.

The ‘lost’ city of Atlantis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Chris Naunton at BBC History Weekend

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Launching site for V2 rockets in Germany during World War 2. (Photo by Getty Images)

Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kerri Greenidge, Tom Holland, Suzannah Lipscomb and Michael Wood debate the historical context of 2020

2020: The historians’ verdict . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Capture of Helen by Paris, causing the Trojan War, according to Homer. Hand-colored woodcut. (Photo by Alamy)

Women in Greek myths . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

Germans who resisted the Nazis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A secret WW2 wargame . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bernard Cornwell talks about the final novel in his Last Kingdom series and his next project – a new Sharpe adventure. (Image by Getty Images)

Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom’s finale and the next Sharpe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dr Johanna Dale explores how the seventh-century Northumbrian king Oswald became an important saint across medieval Europe, on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Oswald, the many-headed medieval saint . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.