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Second World War

The Retreat: Hitler’s First Defeat

Racism by omission

Image of the Lindisfarne Stone from Holy Island, Northumbria. It shows seven warriors, possibly vikings. The Vikings’ first recorded raid on Lindisfarne took place in AD 793. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the Vikings' violent raids begin?

Land Girls and their Impact

Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection

Food and drink on the Somme frontline: the soldier experience

The motivations behind Viking raids and the life of Dr Johnson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WWI army rations and the French Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Katterfelto: Prince of Puff

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Heart Beguiling Araby

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Conspiracy theories are everywhere

Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)

9 places associated with Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot

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Ten things to do in … December

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A people’s charter for the outdoors

Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná, Paraguay, where the bell tower of the site's first of two churches stands. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and were abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. (Photo by Kevin Moloney via Getty Images)

Jesuit missionaries: “a masterpiece of humanity”

Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming (later head of the British Secret Service), Professor Redwood and Bernard Redwood at the Motor Yacht Club Reliability Trials on Southampton Water, 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

First World War spooks

Detail from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, showing hawking. Made in Tournai in the 15th century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe medieval huntress

The Battle of Zama – Hannibal meets his nemesis

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Blood, Iron & Gold

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The Red Prince

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England

First World War special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Red Flag

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The Great British Bobby

The Holy Face by Andrei Rublev. Tempera on wood, 14th century. Moscow, Russia. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The mutation of Christianity

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Ten things to do in . . . November

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New face for oldest museum

‘Battle of Quiberon Bay' (c1765), from 'Old Naval Prints' by Charles N Robinson and Geoffrey Holme (The Studio Limited, London), 1924. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

The battle for Britain 1759

A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

Looking back at The End of History

Portrait of Captain William Bligh. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Bligh (1754–1817). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Transport minister Ernest Marples on a road bridge near the London end of the newly opened M1 motorway, 2 November 1959. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

The first day on the M1