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Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Special Boat Service: WW2’s silent heroes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers disembark a landing craft with a battle on the beach beyond

How to win a 20th-century battle

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From Meiji to modernity: how Japan reinvented itself through the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers lower the bodywork of a Standard Vanguard car onto its chassis in a factory

Britain’s motor city: how Coventry's car industry roared to greatness – then went into reverse. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German troops on horseback cross a bridge during the Poland campaign

The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why do things change?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The rise of the Paralympics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

Migrants at a detention centre in Texas, March 2019

The complex history of concentration camps. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

The Windsors in exile. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

Brazilian peacekeepers under UN command in Haiti during general election 2006

When should countries intervene in others’ affairs?

Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The British Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the day of George VI's coronation

Britain’s May Queen: your guide to Queen Mary of Teck

Robespierre’s brutal downfall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How should we teach the slave trade?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

Portraits, power and royal wigs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

What’s next for period drama?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.