Heroes and Villains
Love them or hate them, learn more about some of the most significant people and events in our recent past from original documents, photos and film.
the national archives
Winston Churchill
and the bombing of Dresden
John Kennedy
and the Cuban missile crisis
Benito Mussolini
and the invasion of Abyssinia
Joseph Stalin
and the industrialisation of the USSR
Harry Truman
and the atomic bomb
Martin Luther King
and the civil rights movement
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