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Margaret MacMillanWhy are there wars?.

ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

"We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that's not the reality": Margaret MacMillan on humanity's compulsion to go to war.

Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020.

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?.

Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth II

In profile: Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

The history of Japan: everything you wanted to know.

Arnhem: the Battle for the Bridges, 1944.

Author Kate Summerscale (Photo by Fran Monks)

A 1930s ghost hunt.

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history".

Young girl putting garland around Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)

History heroFergal Keane chooses Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964).

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

Rasputin: the 'mad monk' who became a friend to the Romanovs

Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in season 4 of 'The Crown'. (Photo by Netflix)

The Crown S4 news: Netflix releases first images of Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher

Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

From Enola Holmes to Fanny Dickens: recognising 5 historical women ‘overshadowed’ by their more famous brothers.

JFK: the path to power.

Winston Churchill pictured in July 1964, a few months before his 90th birthday – a milestone that he marked with tears. The prime minister would cry at everything from suffering pets and march-pasts to dying friends and poetry recitals. (Picture by PA Images)

Churchill: the ‘cry-baby’ war hero.

Prinsesstårta. (Photo by Samantha Nott)

Historical recipePrinsesstårta (Princess cake).

Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history.

Ada Blackjack: how the 'female Robinson Crusoe' escaped death in the Arctic.

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

History heroMichael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952).

London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940

Second World War

Days of destiny: 5 key dates in the Battle of Britain

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

A suffragette march

The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know.

Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?.

Illustration by Joey Guidone

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?.

London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Rationing, school closures and 'Blitz spirit': how did people cope in WW2?.

Exclusive podcastAnita Anand on an orphan radicalised by the Amritsar massacre.

Britain goes to war.

The Crown S4 cast: which real historical figures feature in season four of Netflix’s royal drama – and what did they really look like?

Rjukan Hydro Plant

Spying in WW2: how wartime espionage was just as dramatic as fiction.

Ernest Bevin

Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior.