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Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

Second World War

How successful was the Dambusters raid?

Britain at War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Harold Wilson in 1971, after his first period as prime minister. He would take power again in 1974. (Photo by Getty Images)

History heroJason Watkins chooses Harold Wilson (1916–95). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

VE Day revellers blowing party trumpets

Second World War

In pictures: jubilant VE Day street party celebrations

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)

From The Crown to Queen Elizabeth’s corgis: 24 history questions about the royal family for your home pub quiz

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

"The war without an end": what happened in Europe after VE Day?

The rise of spiritualism after WW1

Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett

Percy Fawcett and the search for the 'Lost City Of Z'

Photo of JFK in the motorcade

Who killed JFK? The case that can never be closed

A Nazi mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Elizabeth 1939

The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen

Coco Chanel photographed in Paris, c1936

Chanel and the Riviera. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rewriting the past: the history that inspired Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

A Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

Your guide to...the Great Depression

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

Second World War

A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in a scene from the 1962 film 'James Bond: Dr. No' (Photo by United Artist/Getty Images)

The spies who inspired Bond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Astronauts being lifted from the Apollo 13 spacecraft after splashdown in the South Pacific,1970. (Photo by Alamy)

Apollo 13. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene: why do people want to believe she was a sinner and prostitute?

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Getty Images)

Yuri Gagarin: 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the first man in space

Children in Auschwitz

Second World War

The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

Ramsay MacDonald, the first British Labour prime minister, pictured after the general election of 1931

A brief history of the Labour Party

Britons watch Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas message in 1958. (© Topfoto)

A brief history of the Christmas Speech

Steve McQueen stars in the 1963 film that turned the 'Great Escape' into a symbol of Allied pluck and ingenuity. (Image by Alamy)

The not-so Great Escape

Frances Griffiths poses with the fairies

Fairies, rabbit births and an 'ancient' tiara: what are the greatest historical hoaxes?

Okinawa: the battle and the bomb. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American soldiers in Vietnam

The war that America could never win? Opposition, dissent and the Vietnam War

The US assault on Okinawa

The WW2 battle of Okinawa: the bloodiest assault of the Pacific War

Two American soldiers wait for the second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division during Operation Pershing during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War defined America in the second half of the 20th century. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

Your guide to the Vietnam War – plus 7 surprising facts you might not know

Walt Disney uses a baton to point to sketches of Disneyland

The history of Disneyland: How Walt Disney created the 'Happiest Place on Earth'