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Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

There was more to the 80s than Maggie

David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

The battle for the US Constitution: how the 14th Amendment is under threat

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

The Empire State building

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A combo picture of two images taken 13 August 2002 at Cairo Museum shows a foot of a mummy missing its big toe and beside it a prosthetic toe of leather and wood to replace the amputated real one. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&AHow long have people used prosthetic limbs?

Student life and working class culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of electric chair

Q&AWho invented the electric chair?

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

Michael Wood on... Oxford's Cecil Rhodes statue. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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

A coffin containing the skeleton of King Richard III sitting in repose inside Leicester Cathedral. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Are we blinded by our love of history?

A portrait of the author Leo Tolstoy on his 80th birthday. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A brief history of War and Peace

A brief history of camouflage

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?

The history of middle-class wine drinking

Arsenic: a brief history of Agatha Christie’s favourite murder weapon

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

Q&AWhy do we say ‘happy as Larry’?

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The LibraryBritain’s tearoom fascists

Britain’s railways and the Titanic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: Frank Sinatra at 100

The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 phases of the history of Artificial intelligence

The end of the Cold War and British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frank McEachran: the real-life model for The History Boys’ star Hector

Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings