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Historian Saul David

Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

A homemade ouija board, a treasure hunt and fake madness: the great escape of World War I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

Unexpected Edwardians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plagues of our past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My father the Nazi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mário Soares of the Socialist Party basks in public adulation after becoming prime minister in the election of 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to the Carnation Revolution

10 quotations that defined the 20th century

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

How did the British royals survive WW1?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

How George V won the war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Prince Philip

Prince Philip: the loyal consort. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, on their wedding day

The Prince Philip Years: how did Britain change while he was Queen Elizabeth II's consort?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad

Jihad and the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, the top above water

Britain’s nuclear deterrent: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dancers in a nightclub

Aids: the epidemic that changed Britain

A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Battle of Britain myths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Israeli pilot after the raid on Entebbe

Operation Thunderbolt: Was the 1976 'raid on Entebbe' a brilliant rescue?

Hitler’s war on “degenerate art”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.

Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“The worst journey in the world”: the Arctic convoys of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aboriginal Australians: a modern history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US secretary of state William Seward (seated left) signs the agreement to buy Alaska from Russia in 1867

America’s hidden empire: the USA's forgotten imperial expansion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.