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The Waco siege: an American tragedy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kathrine Swizter.

Kathrine SwitzerThe shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How women were excluded from sport – and fought back. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroChris Hadfield chooses Michael Collins. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The KGB’s secret war on the west. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A protester wearing a star badge at an anti-vaccination rally in Cardiff, 2021. The badge’s design deliberately evokes the star Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied territories during the Second World War.

“Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate”: Richard J Evans on the trouble with comparisons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

Nuclear apocalypse in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A goat pokes its head over the fence at a city farm near Greenland Dock, London, which is still home to the Surrey Docks Farm

Urban animals: the growth of city farms in 20th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A small group of Argentine troops survey the scene not far from Port Stanley after arriving in the Falklands by helicopter (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What if...Argentina had won the Falklands War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The man who almost discovered the double helix. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroTim Dunn chooses John Betjeman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The clocks change at South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

A brief history of daylight saving time

Women's history podcast episodes

My history heroPhil Tufnell chooses Denis Compton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frida Kahlo painting

Who was Frida Kahlo?Her life and legacy

Sisters in armsThe Women's Liberation Movement

The Iraq War, 20 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white photo of a group of women marching while holding a sign saying 'International Women's Day'

A brief history of International Women's Day: what is it and why do we celebrate it?

The paranormal activity at 63 Wycliffe Road prompted a flurry of coverage in tabloids such as the 'Daily Sketch'

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesThe Battersea Poltergeist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragettes attempt to attack the house by airship. Miss Muriel Matters with megaphone, Hendon airfields, London. 16th February 1909

Muriel MattersThe well-spoken women’s rights hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women's rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroIain Dale chooses Ronald Reagan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

Mussolini's March on RomeHow Italy became the first fascist state

Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why did the Ottoman empire implode?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)

Brian EpsteinThe brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles