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20th Century

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

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

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

Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?

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

Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?

Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble

The Suez Crisis: everything you wanted to know

Babies from a nursery are walked in a pram, c1953

A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré

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

‘Two steps behind’: male royal consorts through history

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

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

History heroElla Al-Shamahi chooses Cândido Rondon (1865–1958)

Charles Sobhraj (centre) pictured in 2011, while trying to sue the Nepalese government for unlawful imprisonment

The real history of The Serpent: the true story of Charles Sobhraj

Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov

Vladimir Lenin and his lust for power

Stalin: the real victor of WW2

Sending the first man into space

A flapper shows off her hidden bottles of alcohol

The morning after: the impact of prohibition

Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey

German troops and a Georgian ‘volunteer’ in action in 1942 or 43.

Texel: Europe's last battle of the Second World War

Tales of Irish emigration

Kate VigursThe women of SOE in WW2 France

The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers' rights