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The end of the First World War and the Duke of Wellington . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War

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The Suez crisis and the north of England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

History explorer: the Cold War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cold War and the history of philosophy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British reserve troops waiting to move up to the forward area during the battle of the Somme, France, 1916. Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads

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Spain’s very international civil war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Books interview with Daniel Todman: “Everything that happened in 1940 isn’t somehow down to Winston Churchill” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Battle of the Somme special . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

When Britain tamed ‘superman’