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A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war

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A coal mine explosion, the birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne, and the first Briton in space: 5 things that happened On This Day 19 May

Alfred Hitchcock greets a crowd

10 facts about… Alfred Hitchcock

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American actor and singer Howard Keel records 'Kiss Me Kate' with his co-star Patricia Morrison, 1964. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The growing pains of BBC Two . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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Britain in the 1970s . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy’s The Apocryphal Napoleon imagined what would have happened if the emperor had conquered Russia in 1812 instead of being defeated at Moscow. In this painting, Napoleon retreats from Moscow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The history essay: the past that never was

A group of survivors from the Long March after their arrival in Shenxi in 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The Library Mao: the legend of the Long March

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A brief history of home ownership in Britain

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Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

The Library D-Day for God? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: “What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The front cover of a 1924 edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

Beyond the Hitler diaries

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Protesters behind the perimeter fence at
Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station. (Photo by London News Pictures/REX)

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.