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A brief history of camouflage

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?

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The history of middle-class wine drinking

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Arsenic: a brief history of Agatha Christie’s favourite murder weapon

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

Q&A Why do we say ‘happy as Larry’?

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The Library Britain’s tearoom fascists

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Britain’s railways and the Titanic . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In pictures: Frank Sinatra at 100

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The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German 'Enigma' and 'Lorenz' codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

7 phases of the history of Artificial intelligence

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The end of the Cold War and British culture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Frank McEachran: the real-life model for The History Boys’ star Hector

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Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

Q&A Who voiced the original speaking clock?