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Picture of a court jester

10 April Fools pranks through history that went wrong. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldiers lie on the floor an gumpoint during the Falklands War, guarded by Argentine soldiers

The Falklands War: why did it happen?

United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

Is the future of Nato under threat?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality“As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1942: Churchill's darkest hour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1942: Churchill’s darkest hour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A young woman sat in front of a mirror applies lipstick, 1967

The price of beauty: the dangerous cosmetics used until the 20th century

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.

Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women?

Our Winston Churchill obsession. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 30th Annual Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1958. (Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

13 remarkable moments in the history of the Oscars

Episode 3The corporation at war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prohibition: busting myths about the ban on booze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woolton pie, a vegetarian dish popular during WW2

Historical recipe:Woolton pie

A woman holds a pitchfork in an image from a recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army, 1940s.

Dig for Victory: Britain's WW2 war on hunger. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Carrot conspiracies & digging for victory: feeding Britain in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the Russia-Ukraine war“The language, tactics, and weapons hark back to the 1940s”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Chinese Red Guards

The Gordons: Prisoners of the Cultural Revolution

Britain’s WW2 island internment camp. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family in Soviet Ukraine during the Holodomor

Stalin’s famine: a brief history of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine

A photograph of Al Capone, in a suit, looking into the camera

Your guide to the Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone

9 history podcast episodes that chart Russia and Ukraine's changing interactions with the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ukraine: the WW2 roots of today's conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English pilot Amy Johnson sat in a plane and wearing a helmet

'Queen of the Air': the remarkable life of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997

Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First photo of baby Charles Lindbergh Jr

Q&AWho was the Lindbergh baby?

Fascism in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of fence and barbed wire

Q&AWhat does Iron Curtain mean, and who popularised the term?

Two boys uncover a cache of food during Ukraine’s Holodomor famine, c1934

“Russia has always refused to let Ukraine go”: Keith Lowe on the long roots of today’s crisis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.