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Comprising a large semi-circle of heavy woollen cloth, the Roman toga was a deeply impractical garment. (Photo By DEA/A.DE GREGORIO/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Q&A Did Ancient Roman togas have pockets?

A photograph of a crowd in Berlin celebrating Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany's proclamation of war against Great Britain, August 1914. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Library 1914: Countdown to catastrophe

King Henry I

The Library How King Henry I made and blew a fortune

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Britain’s foreign policy secrets . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Hitler and architects visiting the construction site of the Berghof around Christmas 1935. From left to right: Leonhard Gall, Gerdy Troost, Hitler, and Wilhelm Brückner, Hitler’s chief adjutant. (United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland)

Second World War

Where did Adolf Hitler live? The homes of the führer and how they were used as Nazi propaganda

Portrait of Richard III, dated 15th century. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Treachery at Bosworth: what really brought down Richard III

Members of the Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) LDV (Local Defence Volunteers) dressed in their civilian clothes march along a platform passing a steam locomotive on 1 July 1940 in London. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Dad’s Army guide to defending Britain

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Do we really live in a less charitable society than 50 years ago?

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Podcast with Jonathan Ruffle

The Tommies’ final acts . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Library Highlights of medieval Britain

An engraving showing the story of the Three Living and the Three Dead

Inside the medieval mind

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Catholics in Elizabethan England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An introduction to the Black Death

A chocolate house in Georgian times. Coffee and chocolate houses were popular, and served as clubs and meeting places for business (© TopFoto)

The Georgian origins of our obsession with chocolate

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Rethinking 20th-century Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.