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London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Blitz spirit: how ordinary people coped with WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare and America. (Images by Dreamstime)

Shakespeare and America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Helen Birkett photographed at Corfe Castle.

News in the Middle Ages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Millennium Centre in Cardiff. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Wales’s turbulent 20th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Attack on the Court-House, St. Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, during the Morant Bay rebellion, October 1865. (Photo by Getty Images)

Resistance in the British empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Writer and journalist Hadley Freeman

Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Stonemason Andrew Ziminski. (Photo by David Hampton)

Written in stone . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

Dictators explained . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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On his plantation in Georgia, American politician Benjamin Hawkins is teaching Creek Native Americans how to use a plow, 1805. (Photo by Granger, NYC / TopFoto)

Food and war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Writer Virginia Woolf photographed in 1932. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

London’s trailblazing women . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Secrets of Lindisfarne . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Doctor treating a patient, from a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Medieval medicine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cato Street conspiracy

Georgian terrorists: the Cato Street Conspiracy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Burglary: a modern history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.