20th Century

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

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Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

Second World War

Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

Howard Hughes makes preparations for the historic flight of the Spruce Goose.

Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon

Conrad Nagel and Dorothy Dalton in movie still from Fool's Paradise, 1921.

Hollywood in the 1920s: stars, scandals and the end of silent films

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing

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How ballroom dancing gripped Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Inside Germany’s postwar prisons . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&A Why did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

Mrs Louisa Lee, a widow who went missing from Margate, Kent in 1939.
She left a boarding-house in the Cliftonville area of Margate to go to London but was never seen again.

Historical cold cases The mystery of the vanishing widow

Periodic outbreaks of smog would continue for several years – this image shows a London street in late 1953. (Image by Getty Images)

The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

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Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.