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D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Aftermath (Part 3 of 3) post image

D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Aftermath (Part 3 of 3)

In this special commemorative feature, nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images

D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Invasion (Part 2 of 3) post image

D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Invasion (Part 2 of 3)

In this special commemorative feature, nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images

D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Planning (Part 1 of 3) post image

D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Planning (Part 1 of 3)

In this special commemorative feature, nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images

The Summer of 69 (Part 2 of 2) post image

The Summer of 69 (Part 2 of 2)

The Moon landings gave the summer of 1969 its defining story. But elsewhere in the world many other events of consequence were playing out

The Summer of 69 (Part 1 of 2) post image

The Summer of 69 (Part 1 of 2)

The Moon landings gave the summer of 1969 its defining story. But elsewhere in the world many other events of consequence were playing out

Herbert Ponting's Photographs of Antarctica in Colour post image

Herbert Ponting's Photographs of Antarctica in Colour

Colourised and remastered images from Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition

The Medieval Art of Graham Turner post image

The Medieval Art of Graham Turner

The artist Graham Turner casts an eye back to 1471 and one of the decisive moments of the Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Barnet

The Art of the Grimoire post image

The Art of the Grimoire

A gallery of Magic Books and Spells with Owen Davies

Life and Death on the Eastern Front post image

Life and Death on the Eastern Front

Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring share rare colour photographs from the Second World War

A Very American Santa Claus post image

A Very American Santa Claus

Emily Kern traces the provenance of a modern folk hero

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights post image

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights

After the amphibious assault by the Union army two days prior, both armies, unknowing of the carnage to come, prepared for battle

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock post image

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock

Illustrated eyewitness accounts of the Union's amphibious assault of Fredericksburg on Thursday, December 11th, 1862