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Black-and-white photo of Muhammad Ali fixing his suit (Credit: Getty Images)
Style

How black men have used bold fashion as resistance

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

A portrait of Antonin Carême (Credit: Alamy)
Television

The true story of the first ever 'rock star' chef

By Emma Jones
Aldrich Ames being arrested in handcuffs, with members of the press taking photos of him from behind (Credit: Getty Images)
In History

Aldrich Ames: The US's most damaging double agent

By Myles Burke
A black-and-white photograph of Hitler sitting on a bench (Credit: Getty Images)
In History

The fake Hitler diaries that fooled the press

By Myles Burke
Diego Luna in Andor (Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd)
Television

How the young Stalin inspired a Star Wars series

By Stephen Dowling
A black-and-white photograph of men with blankets over their heads being led out of a house by police (Credit: Getty Images)
In History

The men behind the Great Train Robbery

By Myles Burke
A small group of people stand around the remnants of a fallen bomb in a Spanish village (Credit: Alamy)
In History

How the US dropped nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966

By Myles Burke
Film-maker Ken Burns shown holding up one hand as he speaks. An American flag can be seen behind him with a special pattern of stars in the blue field (Credit: Evan Barlow)
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Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history

By Christopher Luu
A still of Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris (Credit: Getty Images)
Film

How Last Tango in Paris undid its female star

By Emma Jones
A young Bill Gates sits in a garden (Credit: Getty Images)
In History

How Bill Gates mapped out the internet era in 1993

By Greg McKevitt
Steve McQueen holding his hands up in The Great Escape (Credit: Alamy)
In History

The true story of The Great Escape

By Aine Quinn
Hans Holbein's portrait of Cromwell (Credit: National Portrait Gallery)
Television

The truth about Henry VIII's right-hand man

By Clare McHugh
Composite of a coloured picture of Tupac and Afeni Shakur in black and white (Credit: Getty Imahes
Music

The rap anthem that immortalised single mothers

By Thomas Hobbs
Detail of painting showing face of man with postman’s hat and full beard with floral backdrop (Credit: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Art

The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee
17th-Century Italian painting, The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt (Credit: Getty Images)
Women's History

The 'sexy' tale that became a medieval blockbuster

By Donna Ferguson
Oskar Schindler holds up a photograph of him with people (Credit: Alamy)
In History

How Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jewish people

By Greg McKevitt