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Britain's Greatest Prime Minister Podcast Series From HistoryExtra

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 2: Stanley Baldwin . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stanley Baldwin in the study at Chequers, the PM's official country residence, c1925

Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?

Portrait of King George V of England. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to King George V: facts about his life, reign and death

A German sailor signals Bismarck during manoeuvres in the western Atlantic, some time before the British gave chase. The maimed battleship sank below the waves on 27 May 1941

Second World War

The sinking of the Bismarck: a cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic

Scientists monitor control panels aboard HMS Campania during the countdown to the test of the first British atomic bomb in the Montebello Islands off north-west Australia on 3 October 1952. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Britain’s nuclear past: the fallout from the High Explosive Research programme

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Joanna Bourke explores what ideas about ‘evil women’ can tell us about societal values through history. (Image by Getty Images)

Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jonathan Dimbleby revisits the dramatic, murderous struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alex von Tunzelmann responds to your questions on the 1956 Suez Crisis: a diplomatic debacle that dealt a serious blow to Britain’s standing in the postwar world. (Image by Getty Images)

The Suez Crisis: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Babies from a nursery are walked in a pram, c1953

A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics

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Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, back to back

‘Two steps behind’: male royal consorts through history

The Imperial State Crown

Second World War

Q&A Where were the crown jewels kept during World War II?

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To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history. (Image by Steve Sayers)

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Former US president Theodore Roosevelt stands on a boat with Cândido Rondon

History hero Ella Al-Shamahi chooses Cândido Rondon (1865–1958) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles Sobhraj (centre) pictured in 2011, while trying to sue the Nepalese government for unlawful imprisonment

The real history of The Serpent: the true story of Charles Sobhraj