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Robert Baden-Powell in the 1920s.

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War culture and the path to the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Were the pulverised bones of soldiers and horses who died at the battle of Waterloo sold as soil fertiliser?

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Diary of the judge who hated Hitler to be published for first time

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First World War drama The Wipers Times an instant hit with viewers

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Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

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Your 60-second guide to Ypres

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

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Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Waterloo: the historians’ verdict

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Excavation search for soldiers killed on Flodden battlefield

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Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

Captain Walker (fourth from the left), clutching a hastily grabbed sandwich in his right hand, plots his next move during a patrol that saw his group notch up a record six kills, February 1944. (Photo by Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Library Johnnie Walker: U-boat hunter in the Second World War

A trebuchet shown during the Siege of Antioch. (Bridgeman)

Q&A: When and where was the trebuchet invented?

A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

Q&A Why did Britain and France not declare war on the Soviet Union when the Red Army marched on Poland in September 1939?