People watching the Royal Wedding

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Queen Elizabeth II in a garden with one of her dogs, March 1953. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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'Tomatina' festival in August 1999. (Photo by Müller-Stauffenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had "much joy and pleasure in death". (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A portrait of the writer and antiquarian John Aubrey

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The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo

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Denis Dighton's painting shows the defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard at Waterloo

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An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

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Photo of female cyclist in 1885

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the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

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Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

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Jane Austen

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Merton College, Oxford.

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Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’

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Blasphemous Bibles and cannibals at sea: 4 bad days in history

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Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

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Stone AgegalleryIn picturesStonehenge tourism through history

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Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

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Magna Carta

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Actors in a staging of Shakepeare's 'Macbeth'

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