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A brief history of camouflage

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Postwar Germany and medieval CSI . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian bakers and the Leningrad symphony . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists
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The Library Britain’s tearoom fascists

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The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German 'Enigma' and 'Lorenz' codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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7 phases of the history of Artificial intelligence

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WW2 espionage: The spies who surprised me

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World War Two spies and an extraordinary naturalist . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Battle of Agincourt', 25 October 1415. Hand-coloured later. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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The Library The History Essay: How Europe rose from the dead

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh
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Simon Schama’s portraits of a nation

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New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Black Market camera seller
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Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
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The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few

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It’s rubbish to claim that Britain provoked Hitler into a fight