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History quiz – songs, space stations and capital cities. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Churchill's army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined

Did women revolt in Europe?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cold War summits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world

Londoners read newspaper headlines about Britain's entry to the Common Market, January 1973. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The reluctant Europeans

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the TV series 'Poldark'. (Photo by Adrian Rogers)

Period dramas should not be judged on historical accuracy, say historians

Poldark and historical TV drama. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of London’s 10 greatest live music venues

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

The Suez crisis and the north of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

History explorer: the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1920s: Roaring or tame?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emil Zátopek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The running revolutionary

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s

The Cold War and the history of philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two King Edwards. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of the suntan

Bologna, Italy. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bologna, Italy

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

1966: when the swing turned sour

‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power

The four candidates for the Labour leadership taking part in a hustings in The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, in July 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. From left: Liz Kendall; Andy Burnham; Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The historians' view: What does the future hold for the Labour party?

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers

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EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Radium Girls and the cotton revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History’s most fascinating muses

A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

The Mar Elian Catholic monastery burnt by Islamic State militants in 2016. (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)

History under attack: the destruction of antiquities in the Middle East