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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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My history hero: Douglas Bader (1910–82)

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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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Women don’t always change channel when the bombs begin to fall

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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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