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Benjamin Ferencz acting as the chief prosecutor during the Einsatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1947 (Credit: Alamy)

The US lawyer who put Nazis on trial at Nuremberg

By Fiona Macdonald

Liberace in a bubble bath at his home (Credit: Getty Images)

The secret life of outrageous showman Liberace

By Nick Levine

A close up portrait of Lizzie Borden (Credit: Alamy)

The unsolved mystery of the Fall River axe murders

By Clare McHugh

A black-and-white photo of a group of people looking at a classic Roman pot behind glass (Credit: Getty Images)

The tomb raiders who plundered million-dollar pots

By Fiona Macdonald

Barbara wears an all pink outfit and smiles at the camera while stood in front of a white car (Credit: Getty Images)

The extraordinary story of author Barbara Cartland

By Clare Thorp

Black and white image of Allan Ginsberg, reading sheets of paper with his other fist raised, sat alongside fellow Beat poets (Credit: Getty Images)

How 'obscene' poem Howl reshaped US free speech

By Shaun Curran

A black and white close up portrait of Georgi Markov (Credit: Getty Images)

The poisoned umbrella that pointed to a KGB murder

By Fiona Macdonald

A detail showing soldiers on horseback from the Bayeux Tapestry (Credit: Alamy)

The brutal truth revealed by the Bayeux Tapestry

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Archival aerial view of Trent Park House, a grand stately home with a flag flying from roof surrounded by grounds, from early 20th Century (Credit: Houghton Hall)

The English stately home where Nazis were bugged

By Cath Pound

A black and white image of a man walking with a bicycle amid debris after the bombing of Nagasaki (Credit: Getty Images)

An insider's account of Nagasaki's atomic bombing

By Fiona Macdonald

A drawing of Batman clenching his fists from the comic (Credit: DC Comics)

How The Dark Knight Returns transformed Batman

By Nicholas Barber

A grainy, black and white photograph of three v2 rockets (Credit: Getty Images)

The V2 rocket smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Poland

By Fiona Macdonald

Detail of Portrait of a Woman by Lucas Cranach the Elder showing a Tudor-era painting of a young nun in a habit (Credit: Getty Images)

The 'Holy Maid of Kent' who defied King Henry VIII

By Molly Gorman

A black-and-white photo of Kim Philby in a suit speaking to a room of men (Credit: Getty Images)

The British double agent who taught enemy spies

By Fiona Macdonald

Black-and-white photo of Eva Perón smiling (Credit: Getty Images)

The macabre kidnapping of Eva Perón's corpse

By Fiona Macdonald

Eleanor Roosevelt, King George VI, Sara Delano Roosevelt (mother of FDR), Queen Elizabeth, Franklin D Roosevelt sitting on the porch at Springwood, 1939 (Image credit: Alamy)

The picnic that led to the 'special relationship'

By Clare McHugh