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El Alamein battle in the Libyan desert, c1942. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

El Alamein: the line in the sand. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian David Starkey.

Starkey on the Reformation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)

History Explorer: Opera in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

General History

10 weird things that have happened in November

The search for King Arthur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. (Channel 5)

Eight Days That Made Rome: behind the scenes with historian Bettany Hughes

The Medici. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The death of Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Gunpowder Plot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Living with the Gods. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Flagellants or Brothers of the Cross in Netherlands scourging themselves as they walk through streets

QuizHow much do you know about medieval history?

Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Oaxaca Mexico

ExploreOaxaca: Central Mexico’s “fair and beautiful city”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Attlee’s secret war with Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Indian princes and British Army officers in the Hyderabad contingent polo team, c1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cricket, curry and cups of tea: India's influence on Victorian Britain

Soviet submarines. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

When the world didn’t end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Prince of Wales loading a rifle in the Grenadiers, First World War, 1914. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Edward VIII: How war scarred the playboy prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Michael X and the British war on black power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Old Trail Town, a collection of historic western buildings and artifacts, located in Cody, Wyoming. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

The University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford

The LibraryHistory explorer: The Oxford Martyrs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III reconsidered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

December 2017

Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Jaipur

The Munich Conference. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The world of the Scythians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.