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Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why did the Ottoman empire implode? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)
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Brian Epstein The brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles

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Female spies who forged the CIA . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Pauli Murray
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Pauli Murray The Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)
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Hiding in plain sight The prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

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How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Forgotten histories of the Holocaust . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)
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Narvik in context How battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain

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An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image showing an astronaut on the moon against a purple sky.
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Conspiracy Did NASA fake the Moon landing?

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A journey along the Iron Curtain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Astor campaigning
20th Century

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.
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Edward VII A guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

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Fleeing revolution: Russian exiles in Paris . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.