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Idris Elba (Nelson Mandela) in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video: Gus Casely-Hayford on Timbuktu at BBC History Magazine’s History Weekend

Temptation, scenes of devils in everyday life (a banquet, war, love, marriage etc), folio 215V of Breviary of Love, late 13th - early 14th century Provencal codex by Ermengol de Bziers (detail) | Photo Credit: [ The Art Archive / Real biblioteca de lo Escorial / Gianni Dagli Orti ]

“People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do”

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

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First World War

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

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Elizabeth Woodville, the queen consort of the Yorkist king Edward IV, was a character in the BBC historical drama 'The White Queen'. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Truth, lies and historical fiction: an interview with ‘The White Queen’ writer Philippa Gregory . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII, THE, Charles Laughton, 1933
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Henry VIII: Three films

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Pride and Prejudice takes the top spot

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Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 3 historical films about the Japanese attack on the US fleet

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John Lennon: Three films

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Andrew Marr pictured in London in July 2015. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

Andrew Marr on the making of modern Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The truth behind ‘The Tudors’ TV show