People watching the Royal Wedding

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Suffragettes attempt to attack the house by airship. Miss Muriel Matters with megaphone, Hendon airfields, London. 16th February 1909

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Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

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The real Rob Roy

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Lord Byron

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Everything you wanted to know about the Romantics

Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A witch feeds her familiars in this illustration from the 1579 pamphlet about Windsor woman Elizabeth Stile (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Forgotten TudorsWhat the lives of ordinary people tell us about Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)

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Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

A composite image showing the Edwardians

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An Edwardian family seated at a dinner table

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Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779.

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Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

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The forgotten contributions of black Edwardians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nancy Astor campaigning

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How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

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A composite image showing the Edwardians

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The Edwardian era: a history guide and timeline of Britain in the reign of Edward VII

Diners watch a waitress chalk up the dishes offered on the day's menu at a British Restaurant in Gillingham, 1941. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/ Popperfoto via Getty Images)

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An effigy of Henry III

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The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England's ultimate family drama

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

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Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Two women share a tender moment, c1902

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Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

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The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

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A brief history of Boxing Day

Christmas merriment in an old English manor in the 1500s

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The characters Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, from Charles Dickens's work 'A Christmas Carol'

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Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas as we know it today?

An illustration of the Great Fire of London, c1675. St Paul's Cathedral is seen in flames (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

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Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

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The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

Pat Smith of Mari Arts and the Mari Lwyd (Photo by Western Mail Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

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Welsh Christmas traditions through history

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