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10 things you (probably) didn't know about the bloody eastern front in 1914

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The Mill: behind the scenes of the new series

A letter-writer depicted by Janez Subic, c1878. (© Getty)

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Crowds in Coronation Park, Delhi, celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The LibraryDid Britain make the modern world?

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

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An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

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7 Victorian jokes have been given a modern twist - and they're hilarious

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My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

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Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014

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My favourite place: Janina Ramirez

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The decline of the pub: what can we learn from history?

Destroyer escorts fire depth charges against submarine raiders in the Atlantic during the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

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Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

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A Nobel Prize, a 3,600-mile voyage and the battle of Marengo: 3 things that happened On This Day 14 June

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James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June

A mosaic depicting the poet Virgil writing the Aeneid. (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Revealed: Jane Austen's country life

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Neptune, Georgia and the battle of Toulouse: 3 things that happened On This Day 9 June

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My favourite place: Michael Scott

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Richard I, the Falkland Islands and John Scott Russell: 3 things that happened On This Day 8 June

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Chloroform, Jean Harlow and the Marquess of Dorset: 3 things that happened On This Day 7 June

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"If I don't come home": letters from a D-Day captain

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