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A painting depicting an experiment in an English school on a bird in an air pump, 1768. National Gallery, London. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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A map of London dating from c1572. (Getty Images)

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Life in Tudor London

Anne Boleyn in the Tower

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Oswald Mosley receives a fascist salute from his followers in October 1936

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British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

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A brief history of... the Derby

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StuartvideoVideo: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

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Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison, 1926. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Portico entrance of Oxford's famous Ashmolean Museum. (Dreamstime)

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Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Henry VIII's savage Reformation

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Engraving of Henry VIII, king of England (Photo by Getty)

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Stitching the fashions of the 19th century: who dressed the 19th-century elite?

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8 remarkable historical events that happened in May

Veteran cars – a 1898 Benz and an early Panhard – outside Glover Brothers Cycle Makers, c1900. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

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A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)

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'Guerrilla' and the real history of British Black Power

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Who decided Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, should be executed?

Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps find another use for discarded helmets in France during the First World War. (Alamy)

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An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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