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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?

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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.

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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

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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&A The 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?

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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?

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Ruby Turner and Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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

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1939: A shop assistant working at the cash desk in a Ladies Hosiery department store in Birmingham. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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

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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.

Dictator of Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin, addresses voters, of the Stalin election district in Moscow, on the even of the election in which Russians voted for the first time under the new constitution.

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

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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.