Painting of a European marketplace

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Queen Emma and her sons, miniature in 'Encomium Emmae reginae', mid 11th century, British Library (Photo by Getty Images)

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Pompeii,Italy

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Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Simo Häyhä, said to be the deadliest sniper in history

Second World War

The world’s deadliest sniper: Simo Häyhä

How much do you know about the Vikings? Test your knowledge with our quiz. This mid-19th century painting shows Viking ships on the River Thames. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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c1962: Military personnel in a car pass through the US Army's Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

20th Century

A brief history of Checkpoint Charlie

Two lovers rest after a hunt, Codex Manesse

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Despite popular misconception, Gladiatorial fighting was not the most popular entertainment in Ancient Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

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A brief guide to ancient Rome and the Romans, plus 9 fascinating facts

Bronze effigy of King Henry III on his tomb, Westminster Abbey, London (Photo by Alamy)

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The ruined monastery walls of Lindisfarne priory on Holy Island, on 27th June 2019, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was re-established. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images)

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Francis Drake portrait

Tudor

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

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Marble bust of Nero

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Emperor Nero: the tyrant of Rome

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

Georgian

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

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Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521. This was an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called by King Charles V in Heylshof Garden, Worms, to address Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)

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What was the Reformation?

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Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

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Two members of the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces)

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The US cutter Spencer attacks U-boat U-175

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King John II made prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the English during the Hundred Years War, 1356. Illustration

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Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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How bloody was medieval life?

Charles Cundall’s painting ‘The Withdrawal From Dunkirk, June 1940’

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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk

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The 1618 Defenestration of Prague

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The 1618 Defenestration of Prague explained

British ships on convoy duty in the North Atlantic

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