Dockers unloading wine barrels

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When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Holocaust

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inside the Viking mind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

The history of vaccination: from Edward Jenner to anti-vaxxers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

Second World War

Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

Making a splash: Diana relishes taking her sons on a water ride at the Thorpe Park theme park in 1993. William has since recalled how his mother loved "laughter and fun". (Photo by Getty Images)

Princess Diana: a "modern" mother who ripped up the rule book. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Olusoga"Half a million cats and dogs were put to death in 1939 – for no good reason". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Anne Boleyn: a 16th-century feminist?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

Solon, an Athenian statesman (left) laid the foundations for democracy

Your guide to...the history of democracy

Unexpected Irish tales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Coventry Cathedral after bombing

Second World War

Your guide to the 1940 Coventry Blitz

Stephen Bourne on Black soldiers in WW2

Black Britons in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a group of supposed witches

A very brief history of witches by Suzannah Lipscomb

A 14th-century depiction of bakers at work. (Image by Getty Images)

Social mobility in the Middle Ages: could medieval people improve their station?

Adventure and opportunity: female transatlantic travellers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A near-contemporary depiction of the 14th-century English monk, mathematician and astronomer Richard of Wallingford. Monks were among the leading scientific practitioners during the medieval period. (Photo by Bridgeman)

The genius of medieval science: from medicine to mechanical clocks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Regency era: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Moving, medieval-style. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An empty knight's armor sitting on a chest.

Q&AHow did knights in armour go to the toilet?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

Your guide to...transportation to Australia

Aztecs in their own words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Evil May Day

Flames and violence: the Evil May Day Riots that shook Tudor London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Naming of St John the Baptist, c12th century. From a wall painting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval baby names: what were people called in the Middle Ages?

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Margaret MacMillanWhy are there wars?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.