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

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

A group of sunbathers, wearing protective goggles, on a sandy beach, circa 1925. (Photo by Henry Miller News Picture Service/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The history of the suntan

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My favourite place: Bologna, Italy

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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

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‘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.

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

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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

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