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Helen Czerski explores the impact of oceans on human history, from providing food to connecting trade routes. (Images by Getty Images)

How oceans shaped human civilisation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rosie Whitehouse tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who sailed to Palestine in 1946, in defiance of the Royal Navy. (Image by Getty Images)

Searching for freedom after the Holocaust . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RuPaul – who produces and presents the reality TV show bearing his name – performs during a Gay Rights March in Washington, DC, April 1993. Over 500,000 LGBTQ+ activists and allies participated in a gathering organised to end discrimination. (Photo by Porter Gifford/Liaison)

From Fanny and Stella to Ru Paul’s Drag Race: a short history of drag

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Gareth Williams explores previous efforts to combat lethal diseases, from smallpox to polio. (Image by Getty Images)

The race for vaccines: lessons from history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history’s most dangerous diseases

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American civil rights leader Martin Luther King in Washington DC, where he delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC in August 1963. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Mourning Martin Luther King Jr The life and legacy of the civil rights leader . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

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Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and listener questions about Britain in the 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)

Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hitler and Stalin: Laurence Rees compares the actions of the two dictators over the course of the Second World War. (Image by Getty Images)

Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Priya Satia explores how historians helped advance the British empire, only to later become critics of imperialism. (Image by Getty Images)

How historians helped build the British empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

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David Hepworth tells the story of the British rock bands. (Image by Getty Images)

When British pop invaded America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Frank McDonough discusses his new book charting the demise of Hitler’s Germany from 1940-45. (Image by Getty Images)

The collapse of the Third Reich . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon resigns

Which US presidents have been impeached? A brief history of presidential impeachment

The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history