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The Great Fire of London, 2-5 September 1666 (Photo by Alamy)

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No 10 Downing Street has been home to dozens of prime ministers (and numerous cats) since the iconic residence was first offered to Sir Robert Walpole

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Robert Walpole, the first prime minister of Great Britain

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The Irregulars. From left to right: Prince Leopold (Harrison Osterfield), Jessie (Darci Shaw), Bea(Thaddea Graham), Spike (McKell David), and Billy (Jojo Macari)

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Our illustration shows Thomas Boleyn, whose flair for diplomacy and mastery of languages made him one of Henry VIII's most trusted ambassadors. (Illustration by Sean McSorley)

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Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city

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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, c1870. He was the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement. "With John's foul deeds all England is stinking, as does hell, to which he is now sinking," wrote the chronicler Matthew Paris. (Getty Images)

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Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon

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A union flag flown on HMS Queen Charlotte at the battle known as the Glorious First of June, 1794

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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and known as the Kingmaker, meets his end at the battle of Barnet in 1471

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Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance

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Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

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Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

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The Battle Of Towton, fought on 29 March 1461, was brutal clash in the driving snow fought during the Wars of the Roses

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Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

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Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

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