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Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Tom Holland . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap district in Cape Town South Africa

Explore Cape Town: Africa’s ‘Mother City’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841–1918), by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1867. (Photo by The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)

Q&A Why do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

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Corner shops and Russian ballet . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum Tristram Hunt. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

History-loving politicians

The ill-fated 'Titanic', which sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

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Soviet science and feeding Britain at war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Donald Trump’s unsurprising victory . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night party at the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States in a repudiation of the political establishment that jolted financial markets and likely will reorder the nation's priorities and fundamentally alter America's relationship with the world. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Donald Trump elected president: the historians’ verdict

President Theodore Roosevelt operating an American steam-shovel at the Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, Panama, circa 1906. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).

America’s devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

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“I’ve been close to death nine times”: John Simpson on life as a foreign correspondent

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Reporting from war zones . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Aberfan disaster and women who made history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

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

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