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Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

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The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

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A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?', 1774. (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

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Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past? . 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 ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

9 of Britain’s best castles . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the second half of the 12th century. This military intervention had the backing of King Henry II of England and was authorised by Pope Adrian IV. Here you can see Henry II landing at Waterford in 1171. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: 850 years on

A British military post in a street in Dublin during the Easter Uprising, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

The history of Ireland: 11 milestone moments

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Ireland podcast

Ireland’s past and present . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Podcast Website large Antonia Fraser

Britain’s Catholic emancipation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

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Acts of union and disunion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Library Britain’s brutal battles for hearts and minds