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Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

Rasputin: the ‘mad monk’ who became a friend to the Romanovs

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall: everything you need to know

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President Kennedy gives a televised speech, 22 October 1962. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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History Traveller, part 2: St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Florence Nightingale

The life and legend of Florence Nightingale . 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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Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the world made us . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hollow victory: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, attends Paris VE Day celebrations. But many faced privation and uncertainty as the war drew to a close. (Photo by Getty Images)

VE Day at 75 The bitter taste of victory: why May 1945 was not a time of celebration for everyone

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Getty Images)

Yuri Gagarin: 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the first man in space

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On the trail of the lost pianos of Siberia (Photo by Michael Turek)

Russia’s musical journeys . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1986: Hans Holbein the Younger (ca. 1497-1543), Portrait of Jane Seymour (ca. 1509-1537), Third Wife of Henry VIII of England. (Photo By DEA / G. NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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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.