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Liberty and racism: an interconnected history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

Tony Robinson as Private Baldrick and Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder

Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Montage of three talented teenagers. From left to right: Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great, musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and chess player Judit Polgár

The flush of youth: nine talented teenagers from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

World history in 100 moments. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“The worst journey in the world”: the Arctic convoys of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration depicting the migration of people across the world

How has migration changed the world?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brazilian peacekeepers under UN command in Haiti during general election 2006

When should countries intervene in others’ affairs?

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A hard-fought history of trespass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

How assassinations have changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elinor CleghornThe History of Unwell Women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robespierre is guillotined on 28 July 1794. Had he died two years earlier, his name would now be associated with liberty and equality, argues Marisa Linton. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Robespierre: man of terror

Kissing the Blarney Stone: a women hangs over the precipice with the aid of a friend as she attempts the feat at Blarney Castle in 1935

What is the Blarney Stone, where did it come from and why do people kiss it?

The execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution

What is a revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fern Riddell

Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American billionaire Howard Hughes (shown here in a car in 1947) went from a visionary filmmaker to a germ-obsessed recluse, dying in 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

“His flesh had rotted, and his bed was full of worms”: 5 of history's most eccentric hermits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Everything you wanted to know about Canadian history

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

"Make love not midnight snacks": a social history of slimming clubs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

UFO history10 top sightings and a timeline

A UFO photographed in New Mexico by a government employee. The image was released by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization after careful study. It is unknown what the image shows.(Photo by Getty Images)

How UFOs conquered the world – without firing a shot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.