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A painting depicting the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo. "Wellington’s victories at Roliça and Vimeiro in 1808 were the first significant defeats inflicted upon the French emperor’s armies in Europe," says Saul David. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The triumph of the redcoats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images) 

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The Library“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ernest Bevin

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My history hero: Ernest Bevin (1881-1951). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Goldwynisms

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Vicious murder

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Relativity explained

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Chris Patten, the last governor of colonial Hong Kong, is pictured here receiving the Union Jack flag shortly before Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

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The British empire: 10 big questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The fastest man on earth

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Scientists to investigate ‘British archaeology's greatest hoax’

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Book review - Napoleon

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

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A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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The old world and the new. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dickens on the move. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Line engraving depicting the burning of Rawlins White, c1555. From a late 18th-century edition of John Foxe's 'The Book of Martyrs'. (Alamy)

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German scientists Dr Carl Eisenmann, Dr Mersch, Dr Trabat and Dr Stocklin. (Express/Getty Images)

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The intelligence war for German scientists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in the centre of Florence (Getty) 

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A big day in history: Florence's bonfire of the vanities. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Corfu 1864. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917). (Alamy)

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My history hero: Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English medical student Roger Bannister

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A history of British sport. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The BBC Story

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Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail

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Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

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Why were people who died by suicide historically buried at crossroads?

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An 18th century village in Germany. Strict laws regulated the goods that each social class could buy. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Beware what you buy: the goods German citizens were forbidden to consume. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Not sewing...

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Dave Musgrove talk at Kenwood House

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Murder most horrid

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17th-century Ranter

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