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The most popular historical figures you’ve (probably) never heard of

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Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History’s most fascinating muses

A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

The Mar Elian Catholic monastery burnt by Islamic State militants in 2016. (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)

History under attack: the destruction of antiquities in the Middle East

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Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. (Photo by Getty Images)

History explorer The Second Barons’ War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the 'Desert Dance', a staging in the Jewish theatre in the Warsaw Ghetto (from a Nazi propaganda series), July 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The Library The Holocaust on stage

Gold medallion of Constantius I, from the mint of Trier. It depicts Constantius celebrating his victory over Alectus in AD 296. Constantius is shown on a horse at the gates of London, welcomed by Britannia. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Library The first British Empire

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Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

There was more to the 80s than Maggie

David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

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Operation Barbarossa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Vikings: an interview with the show’s creator and writer Michael Hirst . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historic recipe Sam’s historical recipe corner: Chicken Marengo