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Photograph of Vladimir Lenin, 1901. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

First World War

Books interview with Catherine Merridale: “This was the most important railway journey made in the 20th century”

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History quiz – Chaucer, sailors and the Civil War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)

My history hero: Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Soviet science and feeding Britain at war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sky covered by smoke from the first H-Bomb explosion at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific, 1 April 1954. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Winston Churchill: atomic warrior, nuclear peacemaker

Leopold II statue. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: the Belgian coast

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Who was the first ever teenage heartthrob?

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Donald Trump’s unsurprising victory . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The wartime SAS and Hitler’s drug addiction . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night party at the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States in a repudiation of the political establishment that jolted financial markets and likely will reorder the nation's priorities and fundamentally alter America's relationship with the world. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Donald Trump elected president: the historians’ verdict

President Theodore Roosevelt operating an American steam-shovel at the Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, Panama, circa 1906. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).

America’s devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

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Black British history and Charles I’s children . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Italian poet Francesco Petrarch

Q&A How and when did the medieval period get its name?

Programme Name: Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow - TX: n/a - Episode: Operation Goldrush with Dan Snow - ep 1 - Mountain Passes (No. 1) - Picture Shows: in Canada on the Chilkoot trail; the historic route used by the ‚Äústampeders‚Äù of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush Dan Snow - (C) BBC - Photographer: Ryan Atkinson

Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow