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A woodcut showing the Globe Theatre, one of London's most famous landmarks and the venue most closely associated with Shakespeare's plays. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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5 of the worst smells in medieval London

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My history hero: Samuel Johnson (1709-84). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

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Rome’s lost legion

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Belgium’s great divide

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Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

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The wonder of the west

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The site of the battle of Naseby, which saw parliament's New Model Army win its first major battle against the royalists in June 1645. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Elizabethan adventurer, courtier, navigator and historian Sir Walter Ralegh – "a gorgeous, larger than life figure". Unfortunately, many of his peers weren't impressed by his good looks, and saw instead an arrogant man, blind to his own weaknesses. (Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A woman puts a foundling, or her own unwanted child, into a revolving doorway in a hospital or orphanage wall, intended for unwanted children. (Getty Images)

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Ironclad and the Siege of Rochester

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Should the public pick up the tab for the royal wedding?

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Yemen’s forgotten war

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George III at the end of his reign. He "represented the uncontrollable aspects of humanity that the Enlightenment could not explain," says Stella Tillyard. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Darfur: The history behind the bloodshed

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