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Gentile Bellini

My history hero: Gentile Bellini (1429-1507). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration depicting inhabitants of Hawaii making an offering to Captain Cook

The LibraryThe mystery of Cook’s lost journal

The gardens of the Ursuline Convent, Quebec, Canada

Esther Wheelwright: from survivor to mother superior

Soldiers of the Soviet Union

Did the Soviet Union win the war?

A 1950s illustration of Vladimir Lenin on the sealed train between Switzerland and Russian. (Alamy)

10 ways to start a revolution

The school leaving age: what can we learn from history?

A painting of a shipwreck

Hard lives on the high seas

An engraving showing chimneys emitting smoke during the Industrial Revolution

Can history help halt the runaway train?

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King: A drum major for justice

The 14th-century Gough Map

The Gough Map: a map of medieval Britain

History holidays: French fancy

An aerial view of Wilton House

Going Dutch: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

West Kent Territorial Army

One hundred years of voluntary service

My history hero: Hubert Butler (1900–1991). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Machu Picchu, Peru

General ancient history

The LibraryImperial marvels

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great

Henry VIII, Princess Mary and William Somers

Playing the fool: Tudor jesters

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

Map of Bayham Park from ‘Repton’s Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture’ by JC Loudon. (Photo by The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843)

The myth of native-bashing

Archaeologist Howard Carter removing oils from the

Revelations in the Valley of the Kings: what has been found since King Tut’s coffin?

Tutankhamun: behind the mask

Statue of the great philosopher Confucius in Shanghai. Taken at the Shanghai Wen Miao, also known as the Shanghai Confucian Temple. (Photo by Getty Images)

The legacy of Confucius

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

The LibraryPivotal points of WWII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scout Troop

Baden-Powell, Scouting and the British empire

A flight of Vickers Wellington long-range bombers, used by the Royal Air Force to undertake raids into Germany and elsewhere, 8 February 1940. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Second World War bomber boys

Antique print of the Boston Massacre from the American Revolutionary, by Paul Revere (American, 1734-1818) (hand-colored engraving), 1770. The title of the print is 'The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg't'. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

The plot to kidnap King George III

The members of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Scott of the Antarctic: a true British hero?