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Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia

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North Korea’s nuclear ambitions

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Burma: Why its military dictatorship still survives

Party For Orphans

Postwar refugees: nowhere to go for Christmas

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Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?

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The 19th-century political and social theorist Karl Marx; co-author (with Friedrich Engels) of The Communist Manifesto (1848). (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Karl Marx (1818–83) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 3 historical films about the Japanese attack on the US fleet

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Afternoon sunlight casting shadows on the hills, Lancashire, England UK (Getty Images)

The war on witches . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rebellion and terrorism . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Royal Tars of Old England

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

The Beatles - John Lennon. (ITV pictures)

John Lennon: Three films

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

Portrait of Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) King of England and Ireland. Dated 16th Century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

A secret war against the Tudors