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September 2016

Seve Ballesteros. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Getty Images)

My history hero: Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011)

German soldiers at the battle of the Somme. (Photo by Robert Hunt/Windmill Books/UIG via Getty Images)

The Somme through German eyes

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British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Books interview with Daniel Todman: “Everything that happened in 1940 isn’t somehow down to Winston Churchill” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men line the rails around Radio City, on an abandoned naval fort in the Thames Estuary. In June 1966, Radio City was at the centre of a murder enquiry that would lead to the closure of Britain’s pirate radio stations. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

1966: when the swing turned sour

British gunners busily engaged in putting over a curtain barrage. Somme campaign, France, 1916. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Somme soldiers’ stories

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Britain’s Second World War and the Country House . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Battle of the Somme special . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power

The four candidates for the Labour leadership taking part in a hustings in The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, in July 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. From left: Liz Kendall; Andy Burnham; Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The historians’ view: What does the future hold for the Labour party?

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers

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EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Radium Girls and the cotton revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A prodigy in England: Lucy Worsley on Mozart’s London odyssey . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Was Sarah Guppy the real inventor of the Clifton Suspension Bridge?