20th Century

A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Q&A Who was the Piltdown Man?

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The final instalment in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1950–1999. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1956: The shock of Suez . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part nineteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1900–1949. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1916: The long march to modernity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

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Christmas feasts with Annie Gray Episode 4: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Apollo 8 crew in a capsule during training

Apollo 8: why NASA’s Christmas mission to the Moon was a bright end to a dark year

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Helen Fry discusses British intelligence officer Thomas Kendrick, who helped swing the Second World War in favour of the Allies. (Image by Getty Images)

Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin. (Getty Images)

First World War

Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

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Pearl Harbor Episode 5 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas

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Richard Bosworth answers listener questions on the authoritarian ideology that emerged in Italy a century ago. (Image by Getty Images)

Fascism: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dejan Djokic revisits the brief 1991 war that saw Slovenia secure independence and helped set in motion the collapse of Yugoslavia . (Image by Getty Images)

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers’ Flyer and the world’s first flight

Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

Photo of members of the Versailles Conference

First World War

Your guide to the Treaty of Versailles