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Is “Blitz Spirit” a myth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A decoy rubber tank such as those used by the Allies during WW2.

Masters of disguise: the story of the Allies' WW2 'Ghost Army'

Sex, romance and rights: women's lives since 1950. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norman cavalry on the charge in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Why the Nazis fell in love with the Bayeux Tapestry

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

Lucy Worsley on Blitz Spirit: the courageous stories of six Londoners

Adolf Hitler. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to Adolf Hitler: key facts about the Nazi dictator

1962: London’s big freeze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cary Grant: from humble beginnings to Hollywood icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blitz spirit or broken morale?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

QuizHow well do you know Year 9 history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

Did Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (pictured) ever meet? (Photos by Getty Images)

Second World War

Q&ADid Churchill and Hitler ever meet?

Student nurse Dorothy Norris

A brief guide to the history of the NHS

The NHS: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rebuilding Europe after WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How oceans shaped human civilisation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Searching for freedom after the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RuPaul – who produces and presents the reality TV show bearing his name – performs during a Gay Rights March in Washington, DC, April 1993. Over 500,000 LGBTQ+ activists and allies participated in a gathering organised to end discrimination. (Photo by Porter Gifford/Liaison)

From Fanny and Stella to Ru Paul's Drag Race: a short history of drag

The race for vaccines: lessons from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history's most dangerous diseases

Mourning Martin Luther King JrThe life and legacy of the civil rights leader. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How historians helped build the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

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Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

When British pop invaded America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The collapse of the Third Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.