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Female spies who forged the CIA. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Pauli Murray

Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Forgotten histories of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)

Second World War

Narvik in contextHow battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain

An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing an astronaut on the moon against a purple sky.

ConspiracyDid NASA fake the Moon landing?

A journey along the Iron Curtain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Astor campaigning

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

Edward VIIA guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

Fleeing revolution: Russian exiles in Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing the Edwardians

The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

How FDR transformed the US presidency. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

The Great Unrest: what caused the industrial action of 1911–14?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Weaponising food in the Third Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

ConspiracyDid Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot and George Meeker, 1932.

QuizHow well do you know the silent movie era?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A montage of Adolf Hitler and a purple starry sky

Second World War

ConspiracyDid Hitler escape from his bunker and live in Argentina after WW2?

Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

Second World War

Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conrad Nagel and Dorothy Dalton in movie still from Fool's Paradise, 1921.

Hollywood in the 1920s: stars, scandals and the end of silent films

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.