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WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst (centre) at a 1915 march calling for women to be used in ammunition manufacture (Photo by Kemsley/NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

From china cups to letter bombs: how suffragettes got out the message of votes for women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "I wish that there was no need for specialist history months". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa

Author/veterinarian Dr. James Alfred Wight (pen name James Herriot) holding up a black cat that he is examining at his veterinary surgery.

Who was the real James Herriot?The true story behind All Creatures Great and Small

Video podcastThe Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Orwell in front of a BBC microphone.

George Orwell: the indomitable life of the writer who confronted totalitarianism

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "We mustn’t overlook the toll of surfacing traumatic histories". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting behind a desk

Where does the term ‘champagne socialist’ come from?

Deeds Not WordsThe suffragette story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German tank at the battle of Kursk, 1943. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images)

Second World War

The 1943 battle of Kursk: was it the biggest tank battle in history?

Kichenware displayed in Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1930 Edition (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

Counter revolution: how the kitchen changed in the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Orwell

George Orwell: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry Cavill as Gus March-Phillipps in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Second World War

Is The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare based on a true story? The audacious real history of Operation Postmaster

The Crystal Palace burns down in December 1936

Q&AThe Crystal Palace was constructed of iron and glass – so how and why did it burn down?

Hammer and sickle on a red flag

Why did the Soviet Union adopt the hammer and sickle, and how did it become a symbol of communist revolution?

Anne Frank: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosemary Kennedy (right), the eldest Kennedy daughter. Pictured here with her mother Rose (centre) and sister Kathleen

The lost Kennedy: the tragic life of JFK’s sister Rosemary

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

Ruby Turner and Sister Rosetta Tharpe

My history heroRuby Turner chooses Sister Rosetta Tharpe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beauty before durability: the interwar beginnings of fast fashion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American athlete Alvin Kraenzlein pioneered the now-universal modern technique for hurdling – and claimed four golds. (Photo by Getty Images)

The madcap Paris Olympics: the chaos that nearly derailed the 1900 Games. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josef Stalin: the paranoid dictator who forged the Soviet Union into a superpower

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: how Gurdip Singh Chaggar's murder in 1976 sparked a youth movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastInside a Jim Crow asylum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Schoolchildren from Capel Celyn with a banner saying 'Liverpool shall not drown Capel Celyn'

Capel CelynThe Welsh village that became a reservoir for England

The woman who saved the children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How Stalin ran rings round the west. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.