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20th Century

An elevated view over Stiftskirche & surrounding township, Baden-Baden, Germany

My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

England captain Bobby Moore

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

Second World War soldiers

Second World War

QuizTest your knowledge of WW2 history

A view of English Harbour in Antigua

My favourite place: Antigua

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

The German view on the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Uruguay football players celebrating victory

Q&AWho won the first FIFA World Cup?

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history heroNelson Mandela (1918-2013). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

10 amazing Punch magazine sketches from 1859 to 1981

How did it become a gesture of well-wishing to say to an actor before they go on stage "break a leg"? (Photo by Andrys Lukowski via iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Break a leg’?

Ye olde travel guide: Goree, 1782. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

My history hero: CLR James (1901–89). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diana Lynn, Bonzo the chimpanzee, and Ronald Reagan in a publicity photo for the 1951 film 'Bedtime for Bonzo'. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Ronald Reagan: 10 facts about the 40th president of the USA

An illustrated map of Seville.

Ye olde travel guide: Seville, 1670. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Ian Morris

Books interview with Ian Morris: "War can be a productive force in that it produces larger, more peaceful societies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The LibraryBritain and France: Empires under fire

D-Day landings and the original singing dog: top 10 British Pathé videos

The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.

Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Behind the scenes of new First World War drama The Crimson Field

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: The Book Thief. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of survivors from the Long March after their arrival in Shenxi in 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The LibraryMao: the legend of the Long March

Journalist Ruth First, pictured right, at Anti-Apartheid Movement's freedom day rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1965. Also pictured are actor Patrick Wymark (left) and Bishop Reeves (middle). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

My history hero: Ruth First (1925-82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A poster showing an image from the history of drinking

The strange history of drinking

Ye olde travel guide: Turin, 1887. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.