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United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

Is the future of Nato under threat? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality “As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.

Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women?

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Our Winston Churchill obsession . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the Russia-Ukraine war “The language, tactics, and weapons hark back to the 1940s” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. (Photo by Getty Images)

20 inspirational quotes from women through history

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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997

Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fascism in Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Russian civil war, 1919

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Russia-Ukraine crisis: 9 milestone moments in history that explain today’s invasion

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US president Richard Nixon (centre) and secretary of state William Rogers (right) at the Great Wall of China during their groundbreaking visit in February 1972. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Nixon in China: a week that changed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Has Russia always played by its own rules?

Has Russia always played by its own rules? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In defence of Neville Chamberlain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers from Mao Zedong’s Red Army assemble in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, 1936 (Photo by Getty)

The Chinese Civil War: a guide to the conflict and the rise of Mao Zedong