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A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

9 places where British astronomy flourished . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Stephen Bourne WL

Trailblazers of black British theatre . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the laws of war “Russian politicians and military figures behind the awful events unfolding in Ukraine will, one day, be brought to justice” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Polish coat of arms on red background

Poland and Ukraine’s shared history: how dreams of nationhood endure . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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10 April Fools pranks through history that went wrong . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Oxford boat on the Thames during first ever Boat Race between between the Oxford and Cambridge university boat clubs, 1829.

Oxford v Cambridge: A history of the boat race

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Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality “As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A young woman sat in front of a mirror applies lipstick, 1967

The price of beauty: the dangerous cosmetics used until the 20th century

The 30th Annual Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1958. (Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

13 remarkable moments in the history of the Oscars

Picture of a 19th-century bloomer costume

Q&A When did women start wearing trousers?

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President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the Russia-Ukraine war “The language, tactics, and weapons hark back to the 1940s” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Molotov cocktails, Ukraine

Q&A What is a Molotov cocktail?