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20th Century

Once allies, Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm (sitting to his left) had a colossal falling out over ideology

The Night of the Long Knives: the bloody purge that secured Hitler's power

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

Soldiers from the Women's Royal Army Corps

Second World War

A brief guide to VE Day

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

The changing shape of slimming clubs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Festival of Britain official programme. The event was held in 1951 on London's South Bank

The 1951 Festival of Britain: banishing the gloom of postwar Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s great postwar party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alcohol is poured away into a New York sewer during the prohibition era, c1920

QuizProhibition: how much do you know about the US ban on booze?

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

Happier days: The tsar and his family pose for a portrait in c1910, years before he was swept from power and murdered. Maria, Olga and Tatiana (left to right) are at the back. Alexandra and Nicholas are seated with Alexey at their feet. Anastasia is far right. (Photo by Getty Images)

The last days of the Romanovs: could George V have saved the family?

In their own words: the team behind Apollo 11 describe the 1969 mission to the Moon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of the royal family: Prince Louis; Prince George; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Charlotte; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; and Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's annual birthday parade on 8 June 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Q&AHow did the royals choose 'Windsor'?

British troops guard a wall during the Irish War of Independence, which bears a nationalist message

The Irish Republican Army: a brief guide

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 2: Stanley Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stanley Baldwin in the study at Chequers, the PM's official country residence, c1925

Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of King George V of England. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to King George V: facts about his life, reign and death

A German sailor signals Bismarck during manoeuvres in the western Atlantic, some time before the British gave chase. The maimed battleship sank below the waves on 27 May 1941

Second World War

The sinking of the Bismarck: a cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic

Britain’s nuclear past: the fallout from the High Explosive Research programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Babies from a nursery are walked in a pram, c1953

A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, back to back

‘Two steps behind’: male royal consorts through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Imperial State Crown

Second World War

Q&AWhere were the crown jewels kept during World War II?

Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former US president Theodore Roosevelt stands on a boat with Cândido Rondon

History heroElla Al-Shamahi chooses Cândido Rondon (1865–1958). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.