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

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American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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

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

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

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

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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&A How long have people used prosthetic limbs?

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

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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)

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A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

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

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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