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How ballroom dancing gripped Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inside Germany’s postwar prisons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

Historical cold casesThe mystery of the vanishing widow. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

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

The British Commonwealth of Nations - Together Poster (Photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we should remember…The Statute of Westminster

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The hammer and sickle, seen held aloft by the figures in this Soviet-era statue, symbolised unity between the working class and the peasantry

When and why did the Soviet Union fall? Your history guide to the USSR

My history heroJeremy Bowen chooses Vincent Sheean. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American psychiatry: a tortured history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 4The road to resolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3Dangerous days. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

Second World War

Ben McIntyre on Colditz: "The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable"

World Cup history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of the display cabinet where the World Cup was stolen

What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians' verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

David Dimbleby commands the studio during the May 1997 general election

BBC at 100Into the digital age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet On The Western FrontWhy its lessons still matter today

On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

Max Hastings"If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2Broken ties & a secret pact. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1Tensions mount. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Writing the history of the modern monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tony Blair (Bertie Carvel) and Cherie Blair (Lydia Leonard) in 'The Crown'

The Crown S5 E10 real history: the HMY Britannia's final voyage, and a political landslide

Princess Diana's 1995 interview with Martin Bashir.

The Crown S5 E8 real history: Diana’s Panorama interview causes fireworks

Camilla (Olivia Williams) in 'The Crown'.

The Crown S5 E5 real history: ‘Camillagate’ tapes and a “war council” for the monarchy’s survival

Queen Elizabeth II sends her first Tweet during a visit to the 'Information Age' Exhibition at the Science Museum on October 24, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

How did the world change during Queen Elizabeth II's reign?

Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) in 'The Crown'

The Crown S5 E9 real history: the divorce settlement between Charles and Diana