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

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

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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)
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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)
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The reluctant Europeans

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the TV series 'Poldark'. (Photo by Adrian Rogers)
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Period dramas should not be judged on historical accuracy, say historians

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

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The history of London’s 10 greatest live music venues

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The British Pathe film documents the terrible smog, caused by the burning of coal, that smothered London for five days in December 1952. To watch the film, of to www.britishpathe.com/video/the-smog-menace/query/smog
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History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

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

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

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

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