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Historian at the Movies: The Railway Man reviewed

Behind the scenes of the BBC’s swashbuckling new series The Musketeers

Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain in 1914 and Jesus in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Is Blackadder bad for First World War history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Last living British person born in 1800s dies

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Army of volunteers needed to investigate vulnerable buildings

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

First World War

Telling jokes in the trenches: First World War newspaper The Wipers Times celebrated in new BBC drama

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History writers dominate Samuel Johnson Prize longlist

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Your country needs you! Volunteers called upon to transcribe historic archives

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

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Museum bid to acquire ‘new world’ George Stubbs paintings

Languishing languages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: How far back in time would I have to go until I couldn’t understand what people were saying?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Winnipeg 1913. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Truth, lies and historical fiction: an interview with 'The White Queen' writer Philippa Gregory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

Ye olde travel guide: Rio de Janeiro 1820. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: Were the martial songs in Nazi newsreels typical of the period?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A noisy history of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"I read and studied much": Adolf Hitler at his Berghof mountain retreat in c1936. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Hitler's philosophers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.