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A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home

The White House, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

QuizHow much do you know about US presidents?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Calcutta pavement, c1961

After Partition: colony politics and the rise of communism in Bengal

Icelandic murder mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Winston Churchill greeting the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. From left to right: Princess Elizabeth II; the Queen Mother; Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Buckingham Palace’s balcony: a focal point for national celebration

Living through Partition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The big question: Is Africa a prisoner of its past?

The USS Liberty arriving for repairs following the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor torpedo boats

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?

Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion

The thorns in Mussolini’s side: the anti-Fascists who opposed the Italian regime

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?

Swiss psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung in his library at home. (Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Carl Jung (1875–1961). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The crews of Israeli armoured vehicles during the waiting period before the beginning of the Six-Day War. (Photo by David Rubinger/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Six days that shook the Middle East

Oswald Mosley receives a fascist salute from his followers in October 1936

Who were the young people drawn to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists?

The Beatles arrive in Japan

1966: the Beatles' tumultuous world tour

Albert Einstein, standing in front of the Einstein Tower in 1926. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Q&AWhy the Einstein Tower was renamed – twice

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed

An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

ExploreLa Paz, Bolivia: the history of the turbulent city of peace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador's civil war

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)

'Guerrilla' and the real history of British Black Power

Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

Ruth Williams Khama: first lady of Botswana

An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

In thrall to the red planet: 5 facts about our view of Mars through history

British comedian and actor Arthur Askey at the London Palladium, February 1968. (Photo by David Cairns/Daily Express/Getty Images)

History Hero: Arthur Askey (1900–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

Will history survive the digital age?

Czar Nicholas II with family. (Getty Images)

Books interview with Robert Service: "Nicholas II brought the Russian Revolution upon his own head". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level

In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband's 1903 invasion of Tibet

Colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap district in Cape Town South Africa

ExploreCape Town: Africa’s ‘Mother City’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British leader of the Labour Party Clement Attlee leaves the Treasury, 27 May 1945. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

My history hero: Clement Attlee (1883–1967). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.