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20th Century

Brooklands.

Danny Robin's paranormal cold casesThe ghost of Brooklands Circuit.

How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain.

Elizabeth II surveys troops in Brisbane, Australia during her 1977 silver jubilee tour. There has been increasing debate about the degree to which documents relating to the royal family should be open to the public (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

The royal family and their right to privacy: who should have access to the records?.

A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe parents who never recovered.

George VI and Elizabeth, the queen consort, talking to men clearing the debris of a bomb site in London, September 1940 (Photo by Topical Press/Getty Images)

King George VI's Nazi dilemma: the men in the royal household who admired Hitler.

The Waco siege: an American tragedy.

Kathrine Swizter.

Kathrine SwitzerThe shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967.

How women were excluded from sport – and fought back.

My history heroChris Hadfield chooses Michael Collins.

The KGB’s secret war on the west.

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.

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.

My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin.

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.

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?.

The man who almost discovered the double helix.

My history heroTim Dunn chooses John Betjeman.

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.

Frida Kahlo painting

Who was Frida Kahlo?Her life and legacy

Sisters in armsThe Women's Liberation Movement

The Iraq War, 20 years on.

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.

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.

Women's rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won?.

The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis.

Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know.