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Christmas dinner, 1917 (© imageBROKER / Alamy)

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Sexy shoes: 5 things our footwear has said about us through history

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Tudor

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

Cover of the Voyages Extraordinaires series by the French science fiction writer Jules Verne.

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The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea in a duel at Battersea Fields. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

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A portrait of King Edward VI of England

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A reconstructed round house at Flag Fen, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. (Alamy)

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In pictures: the history of Marvel comic books

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Pleb: a history of the word that sparked ‘plebgate’

Victorian

10 facts about Clifton Suspension Bridge

British statesman and writer Winston Churchill, aged 26. Photograph by Elliott & Fry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Books interview with Boris Johnson: "Churchill was a tremendous bully in some ways, but we needed a bully"

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The historians’ take on… The house price boom

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TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (5–11 December)

One of the statues of Ramesses II at Luxor temple, which is "a wonderful place to spend a few hours". (Getty) 

Ancient Egypt

My favourite place: Luxor, Egypt

A portrait of Charles II, by 17th-century painter John Michael Wright

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Iron Age

8 facts about Old Sarum – an Iron Age fort, Roman settlement and medieval city

Pliny the Elder depicted in a mid-12th century miniature, writing and giving his book to Roman emperor Vespasian. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

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Malcolm X chats with Eric Abrahams – the Oxford Union president who vowed to “fill the room with blacks” – before giving his famous address on 3 December 1964. (Getty)

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Historic San Felipe de Barajas castle is one of the main attractions in Cartagena, Colombia. (Image: Thinkstock by Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

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My favourite place: Miranda Kaufmann

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Coughton Court, an English country house

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An illustration of the Peasants' Revolt

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The history of Britain in an hour

'Portrait of Oliver Cromwell', (c1653?).

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Ancient Greece

In focus: Aesop and his fables

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