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Churchill’s army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined

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Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London

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Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did women revolt in Europe? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War summits . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Maya Angelou was “the ultimate boundary-breaker”, says Naga Munchetty. (Photo by Craig Herndon/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

My history hero: Maya Angelou (1928–2014) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Library History explorer: the Napoleonic Wars

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1877, published in the Illustrated London News. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

The Library England’s northern soul

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Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics

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My favourite place: California, United States

An engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar depicting Old St Paul's on fire during the Great Fire of London, 1666. Frantic efforts to fight the flames quickly turned into an equally fevered search for a scapegoat. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The Library 1666: when London burned with rage

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world

Londoners read newspaper headlines about Britain's entry to the Common Market, January 1973. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The reluctant Europeans

Johannes Vermeer's 'View of Delft’, 1661. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

My favourite place: Delft, Netherlands