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American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

Tension in the Middle East and populist presidents: what the world was like 100 years ago

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

Catherine de Valois is seen here marrying Henry V, who was 14 years her senior, as part of the 1420 Treaty of Troyes. Following Henry's death she wed Welshman Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, who is variously referred to as the queen’s steward, page or cupbearer. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy)

Scandalous Tudor marriages: 7 women who braved royal wrath by marrying for love

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Historian Stephen Tomkins (Photo by Fran Monks)

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German prisoners of war

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

New York City police watching agents pour liquor into a sewer

Wet vs Dry: how prohibition fractured America

Edward VI

To kidnap a king: the foiled plot to abduct Edward VI

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The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

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

Illustation of a pope

Holy smoke, antipopes and power struggles: a guide to popes and the papacy

A still from Sam Mendes film '1917'

First World War

“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917

Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence

Blood brothers: Richard III’s battle with his siblings

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Deer hunt, 15th century, workshop of the Bedford Breviary. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval myths . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?

Pope John XVII

Has there ever been a married Pope?

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The Grey concrete blocks of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Confronting a dark past . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.