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Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)

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Q&AWhich are the oldest surviving restaurants in London?

Author Linda Colley.

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The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

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Solving the mystery of the Elephant Man?

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18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

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This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

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Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

A Christmas card from the First World War

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Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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The race to save western Europe's 'rarest historic buildings'

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Conspiracy to murder?

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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Last living British person born in 1800s dies

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Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1715

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The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

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The discovery of Richard III's remains

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American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

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