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Britain's new Prime Minister took office on February 5th, 1855.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

On January 27th, 1945, the Red Army liberated what was left of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Taylor Downing reveals extraordinary aerial photographs of the camp taken during the summer of 1944, which pose awkward questions about why the Allies did not act to stop the killing.

Simon Chaplin describes the extraordinary personal museum of the 18th-century anatomist and gentleman-dissector John Hunter, and suggests that this, and others like it, played a critical role in establishing an acceptable view of dissection.

How the South-East Asian peninsula had been shaped before French colonial rule.

About 200 people died and 800 were wounded during the march led by Father George Gapon on 22 January 1905.

Boria Sax finds modern myth-making at work in the apparently timeless legend of the ravens in the Tower.

Bendor Grosvenor reveals for the first time a letter by Queen Victoria, which sheds light on the true nature of her relationship and feelings for her man-servant John Brown.

Jonathan Conlin reads 1066 And All That, a book that served as a point of departure to so many people, seventy-five years after its first publication.