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Emma Dabiri “He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Stephen Walker tells Rhiannon Davies about the history of animals in space, from fruit flies and monkeys to Laika the Soviet space dog. (Image by Getty Images)

Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoises . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on James Bond “Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

What was Christmas like in Britain during WW2?

Soviet infantrymen charge in a counter offensive during the battle of Moscow, 1941.

The 1941 battle of Moscow: how successful was Operation Typhoon?

Pearl Harbor sparked an aircraft-manufacturing drive – and, for the first time, allowed US women to perform jobs previously held only by men. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Pearl Harbor aftermath: the fallout from the attack

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Mary Sarotte reveals how US and Russian leaders squandered the opportunity to forge a lasting partnership at the dawn of the 1990s. (Image by Getty Images)

How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

Second World War

The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar

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A statue in Kiev showing a Ukrainian player defeating a Third Reich eagle symbol at the Start stadium's entrance

Q&A Did Nazis guards really play a ‘death match’ against a Ukrainian football team?

Unionist leader Edward Carson (centre) and colleagues visit Derry/Londonderry, September 1912 – the month when nearly half a million people signed a “Solemn League and Covenant” to resist home rule

Resolving the ‘Irish Question’: 5 key moments on the path to partition

A Japanese photograph shows Mitsubishi dive bombers warming up on the deck of a carrier in the Pacific before their attack on Pearl Harbor in the early hours of 7 December 1941. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

‘Britain’s Pearl Harbor’: Japan’s December 1941 attack on the British colony of Malaya