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Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Queen's century of change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empire of blood. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in 2006 film 'The Queen'

Screen QueenElizabeth II on film

Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

QuizQueen Elizabeth II and her reign

Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag during the 1969 lunar landing

How has the world changed during the reign of Elizabeth II?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The birth of insulin: a scientific drama. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mark the diamond jubilee in 2012 by watching the Jubilee River Pageant, where a seven-mile flotilla sails past them (Photo by Eddie Mullholland - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

From silver to platinum: a history of Queen Elizabeth II's jubilees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain's golden jubilees: from George III to Elizabeth II. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

First World War

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

Episode 5Change & innovation in 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

9 places where British astronomy flourished. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eurovision: a political history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coco Chanel in Paris, 1929

Why we should remember…How Chanel No 5 revolutionised the beauty business. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

War in the air: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember…Target Zero Day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American actress, singer and model Marilyn Monroe

Something's got to giveThe dramatic life of Marilyn Monroe

Women from the Auxiliary Territorial Service take a break

Second World War

An army of women: adventures in the Auxiliary Territorial Service

Anne Frank writing at her desk, c1942

Why we should remember…the translation of Anne Frank’s diary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The upstairs/downstairs world of Downton Abbey: how true to life is it?

Video games at 50: a cultural history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mushroom cloud rises into the sky above Enewetak Atoll

The mystery of the missing H-bomb paper. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A wall mosaic of Picasso’s Guernica painting.

Q&AWhy did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?

As well as practising Wicca, other traditions with Pagan roots – such as celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge – still remain popular. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images)

Wicca and modern witchcraft: a history