20th Century

A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner’s guide to art history

A new career in a new town: The image of David Bowie used for the cover of “Heroes”, the musician’s 1977 Berlin-recorded album. The cover photo was inspired by a painting by German artist Erich Heckel, whose subject strikes a similar pose. (Image by Getty Images)

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

Opinion Was the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?

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Winston Churchill leaves a cabinet meeting

Churchill’s days of destiny

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1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

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Q&A: When were the first film trailers shown?

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In pictures: a history of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Britain’s Bonnie and Clyde

The ruins of the Canadian port of Halifax in the wake of the explosion in December 1917. Almost 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured when two ships collided at the height of the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

Catastrophe in Canada

The Carbonniere Tower

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

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Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

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Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

Edward, Prince of Wales, in the rear seat of a Bristol F.2B Fighter with Captain WG Barker of No. 139 Squadron during his flight in 1918, while on a visit to the Italian Front. (Crown Copyright/Air Historical Branch image H1608)

Royal flying