People watching the Royal Wedding

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Andrew Ziminski pictured at his workshop in Somerset.

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Sylvia Pankhurst is taken into custody

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A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret: why did their marriage break down?

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Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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A postcard showing for women hunting for a man with guns and dogs.

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Why do women propose in a leap year?

The Battle of Bunker Hill

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An Art Deco mechanical valentine (moving the cape causes the arms to move up and down) from the 1930s. (Photo by Alan Mays)

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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House, London

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Queen Victoria refused to wear her crimson velvet robes of state for her wedding to Albert. Instead, she opted for a dress of pure white and “simple magnificence”. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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“Nothing could have gone off better”: the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

'The Young Victoria' follows the early relationship of Victoria and her beloved Prince Albert. The monarch was played by Emily Blunt in the 2009 film. (Images by Bettmann/Getty Images/Alamy)

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Bottle of 'love potion'

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During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Henrietta Boyle

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A bust of Charlemagne

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The execution of Charles I in 1649.

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William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

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The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

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January 1973: Londoners reading the newspapers headlining Britain's entry into the Common Market.

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When did the UK join the European Economic Community (EEC) and why?

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Members of the royal family at an event marking the centenary of the Royal Air Force. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Indian soldiers during WWI

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Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

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Policemen from Scotland Yard patrolling at night

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Thomas Blood stealing the Crown Jewels

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An illustration of the barons compelling King John to ratify Magna Carta, 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

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The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

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An engraving depicts a frost fair on the Thames

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