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Explore La Paz, Bolivia: the history of the turbulent city of peace . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The end of El Salvador’s civil war

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The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)
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‘Guerrilla’ and the real history of British Black Power

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Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

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Ruth Williams Khama: first lady of Botswana

An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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In thrall to the red planet: 5 facts about our view of Mars through history

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British comedian and actor Arthur Askey at the London Palladium, February 1968. (Photo by David Cairns/Daily Express/Getty Images)
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History Hero: Arthur Askey (1900–82) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Will history survive the digital age?

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Books interview with Robert Service: “Nicholas II brought the Russian Revolution upon his own head” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level
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In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband’s 1903 invasion of Tibet

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Colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap district in Cape Town South Africa
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British leader of the Labour Party Clement Attlee leaves the Treasury, 27 May 1945. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)
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My history hero: Clement Attlee (1883–1967) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life of the Week: President Franklin D Roosevelt

Giuseppe Garibaldi in Naples, Italy, 1861. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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God, gangs and Garibaldi