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The ruins of Coventry Cathedral after bombing

Second World War

Your guide to the 1940 Coventry Blitz

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Stephen Bourne on Black soldiers in WW2

Black Britons in WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Passengers on the Transatlantic liner Victoria, 1930s. (Photo by Getty Images)

Adventure and opportunity: female transatlantic travellers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster

Diana and Charles being driven to Buckingham Palace after their wedding

Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s wedding: everything you need to know

Staff hard at work at Bletchley Park. The people who worked here did so under conditions of utmost secrecy, and with little idea of how their work slotted into the grand scheme of things. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Bletchley Park: Britain’s wartime intelligence factory

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ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

“We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that’s not the reality”: Margaret MacMillan on humanity’s compulsion to go to war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Statue of Winston Churchill at Parliament Square, London (Photo by Dreamstime)

Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Even after her death in 2013, her record continued to be fiercely contested. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth II

In profile: Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

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Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

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

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Arnhem: the Battle for the Bridges, 1944 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Author Kate Summerscale (Photo by Fran Monks)

A 1930s ghost hunt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.