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Back to school and Hitler’s schemes for war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain under Roman rule and the truth about the crusades . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Field Marshal Harold Alexander, pictured in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero Field Marshal Harold Alexander (1891–1969) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hitler’s secret weapon

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Britain’s waterways have enjoyed a renaissance since the Second World War. (Photo by George W Johnson/Getty Images)

History explorer: Britain’s inland waterways . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of a funerary monument from Athens, Greece depicting a squire taming a horse. Holding elaborate funerals was one of the many ways in which aristocrats broadcast their great wealth. (Photo By DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The trouble with luxury

A Saracen attack on Crusaders, from the French manuscript 'Chroniques de Saint Denis', c1200. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Traders and crusaders

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Ye olde travel guide: Constantinople 976 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Prussian showman

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The invention of the bathtub

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The British Confederate

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Politicians should resist the urge to invoke the wartime spirit

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The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

The making of Wales