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How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain  . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why we should remember… Bloody Sunday

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Historical recipe Coronation chicken

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Did Britain really roar in the 1920s? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)
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The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

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What makes for a good peace? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies
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Women who served in WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

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BBC at 100 The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain’s most famous institutions

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A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

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History's greatest mysteries Why did Mao’s chosen successor flee China? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain

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7 must-see WW2 films, from Schindler’s List to Letters from Iwo Jima

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History's greatest mysteries Agatha Christie disappears . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.