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General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

Edward, Prince of Wales, in the rear seat of a Bristol F.2B Fighter with Captain WG Barker of No. 139 Squadron during his flight in 1918, while on a visit to the Italian Front. (Crown Copyright/Air Historical Branch image H1608)

Royal flying

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gertrude Bell. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

My history hero: Gertrude Bell (1868–1926). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The death of Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Attlee’s secret war with Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soviet submarines. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

When the world didn’t end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Ukrainian famine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, following their journey from Southampton Docks. Originally published in ‘Picture Post’, 1956. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

Clair Wills on immigrants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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

The big question: Is Africa a prisoner of its past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion

The thorns in Mussolini’s side: the anti-Fascists who opposed the Italian regime. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Beatles arrive in Japan

1966: the Beatles' tumultuous world tour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.