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An attendant and his guard dog at the world's first pet cemetery, Paris,

A dog’s-eye view of Paris

A 'full English' breakfast

Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?

When Hitler took cocaine

Artist Leonora Carrington

My history hero: Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Saranda Kolones, Kato Pathos Archaeological Park

My favourite place: Cyprus

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda

Q&AWhere did the famous portrait of Che Guevara come from?

Emmeline Pankhurst

My history hero: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inishbofin, Ireland

My favourite place: Inishbofin, Ireland

A British sergeant measure the chest sizes of Indian men

Books interview with Yasmin Khan: "By the end of the war, few people in the Raj believed it could continue to exist". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II in a garden with one of her dogs, March 1953. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Elizabeth II: the queen who saved the royals

Photo of Derinkuyu Underground City

Q&AHave people ever lived underground?

Corfu: a Greek island getaway that owes much of its popularity to the Venetians. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Corfu, Greece

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club

The many lives of India

The history of India and a terrible explosion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Sergeant

My history hero: Arthur Ransome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Comic Sam Kinison

My history hero: Sam Kinison (1953-92). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War

John Maynard Keynes

Books interview with Richard Davenport-Hines: "The great lesson of John Maynard Keynes's life is generosity of spirit". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A 1950s woman at a grocery store. (Photo by ClassicStock / Alamy)

9 ways our food shopping habits have changed since 1947

A statue of celebrated English nurse and wartime heroine, Edith Cavell

First World War

History heroKate Mosse chooses Edith Cavell (1865–1915)

Sicily

My favourite place: Sicily

Stalin’s early years and Mein Kampf. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture depicting the Dogger Bank Incident

Q&AWhat was the 'North Sea Outrage'?

Berlin Wall in November 1989

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.