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A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet On The Western Front Why its lessons still matter today

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Writing the history of the modern monarchy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II sends her first Tweet during a visit to the 'Information Age' Exhibition at the Science Museum on October 24, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

How did the world change during Queen Elizabeth II’s reign?

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Princess Diana in 1994, attending an event at London’s Serpentine Gallery (left), and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, portraying the same moment in the so-called 'revenge dress' in The Crown

Free-spirited drama or fake news? How The Crown morphed from ‘safe’ territory to controversy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Are period dramas damaging history? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Where is The Crown filmed? The Netflix drama’s locations and their royal links

President Reagan laughs following a joke by Queen Elizabeth, who commented on the lousy California weather she had experienced since her arrival to the States. The British Queen is delivering a brief address during a state dinner held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. (Picture by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth’s relationships with US presidents

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Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in season 5 of The Crown

Opinion “If scholars can’t write accurate histories of the Queen’s reign, drama is what we’ll continue to rely on” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

War and Conflict, Malaya, pic: 1953, British troops of the Special Air Service (SAS) with a helicopter, having been dropped off in the jungle in search of bandits (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

In a nutshell The history of the SAS

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Afghan fighters on top of a destroyed Soviet helicopter, 1980 (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)

War without end: conflict in Afghanistan, from the Cold War Soviet invasion to the Taliban . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ian McEwan on writing historical novels . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Russian men called up to fight attend a ceremony to mark their departure

Russia-Ukraine conflict How the latest developments echo the Second World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hilary Mantel, pictured in Oxford in 2017

Hilary Mantel remembered “She changed the way we think about history” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister

The rise of Giorgia Meloni “It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

Black History Month What is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read