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Richard I, the Falkland Islands and John Scott Russell: 3 things that happened On This Day 8 June

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The Library D-Day: James Holland answers your questions

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Second World War

“If I don’t come home”: letters from a D-Day captain

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Q&A Why was Napoleon exiled to St Helena?

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Benito Mussolini makes a speech. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Library The spies who hunted Mussolini

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A coal mine explosion, the birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne, and the first Briton in space: 5 things that happened On This Day 19 May

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First World War

Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

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Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The Library Britain and France: Empires under fire

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A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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Command and Control

A view of Þingvellir National Park in western Iceland. It was here, in AD 930, that Viking settlers established the first pan-Icelandic assembly – possibly the oldest parliamentary body in the world. (© Dreamstime)

Vikings: A land without kings