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Entrance to the London Dungeon (sign says 'enter at your peril')

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My life in history: Richard Quincey, head of performance at the London Dungeon

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

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Radio Times at 100: a "vivid running commentary" on a century of British life

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“The Roman empire cannot have been governed by a series of psychopaths. It would not have survived”Mary Beard on Roman Emperors

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My history heroDame Rachel de Souza chooses Ignatius of Loyola

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The history of Paris: Romans, Renaissance and Revolution

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A graphic of a detective looking through a magnifying glass at an old fountain pen with a skull on the nib.

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The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain

Water colour image of Madrid, showing a building behind a water fountain

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The history of Madrid: from the Moors to modernity

Watercolour illustration of Lisbon, showing a street leading up towards a church

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Miniature of Ecgfrith, king of the English, along with his bishop Trumwine, visiting Cuthbert at Lindisfarne

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Robert the Bruce addresses his troops ahead of Bannockburn in a 20th-century engraving.

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c1880, the Paris rugby team.

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When Vichy France banned rugby

A picture of people in a Chinese port

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The Great Tea Race of 1866

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Charles VI and Henry V entering Paris

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Swathes of Tokyo lie in ruins after the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923

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Painting depicting the Spanish Armada

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Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada

A modern painting of the battle of Long Island

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A 1948 photograph of the House of Epidius Rufus in Pompeii. The structure had to be rebuilt after being damaged by Allied bombs during WWII (Photo by SuperStock/Alamy Stock Photo)

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How were Pompeii and Herculaneum discovered?

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A 19th-century depiction of the market of Pompeii

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An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

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John Chu standing in front of a portrait

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A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

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