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Guitarist David Crosby of the Byrds performs with his band in front of a large crowd at the Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais, June 1967. (Image by © Henry Diltz/Corbis)

General History

From Ancient Greece to Glastonbury: a brief history of music festivals

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

Juneteenth What is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

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Pod Jonathan Morris WL

Coffee history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How women helped sustain the slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

Memorial Day A brief history

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Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Battling the British empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family walks through San Francisco’s Chinatown district in 1904. Chinese culture endured in the US in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Photo by Arnold Genthe/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The Chinese Exclusion Act: your guide to the 19th-century US anti-immigration laws

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Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Tracy B Coro WL

How (and how not) to stage a coronation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

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Lady killers: what 5 murder cases can reveal about the lives of women in the 19th and 20th centuries . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women's history podcast episodes