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Great Pyramid of Giza. Egypt. (Photo by Olgakostenko | Dreamstime.com)

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Perkin Warbeck, an imposter and pretender to the English throne, being humiliated in the stocks before his execution in 1499. Warbeck was used by Henry VII’s Yorkist enemies in an unsuccessful plot to threaten the new Tudor dynasty. (Getty Images)

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'Soccer' and 'diaper' are among many 'American' words that are more faithful to the old English tongue than those used in Britain today, says James Evans. Other 'Americanisms' were used in Shakespeare's plays before the first English colony was established in Virginia. (L to R: Photos by Hulton Archive/Getty Images; DeAgostini/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Tudor

10 famous people in history and their bizarre pets

A British military post in a street in Dublin during the Easter Uprising, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

20th Century

The history of Ireland: 11 milestone moments

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, the first Saxon king of all England, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

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A portrait of Queen Victoria, who during her reign curbed the use of the title HRH (His or Her Royal Highness) by restricting it to children of a sovereign (of either gender) and grandchildren of a sovereign (in the male line). (Photo by Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Queen Victoria, c1860s. Victoria attended her son's wedding in March 1863 wearing full mourning dress – her husband, Prince Albert, had died some 15 months earlier. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A group of skaters on a frozen-over backwater of the River Thames at Abingdon, 1895. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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In 1945 there were two million more ‘potential’ households than actual homes, in part exacerbated by the wartime damage to housing stock (Coventry, for example, lost one third of its homes in the Blitz). Here, displaced people in east London wait on the street. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The miller Samuel Wood, whose arm and scapula were torn off when entangled in a rope attached to a moving mill machinery in 1737. (Photo by Alamy)

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Coca cola bottles from the 1990s

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A man sneezes into a handkerchief, c1936. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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6 facts about the history of hay fever

Chastity belt decorated with a flower design and a heart pierced with arrows. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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King William II is often overshadowed by his Norman father, William the Conqueror. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Bearded Victorian man. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A brief history of beards

Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV

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The execution of Charles I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Murder, conspiracy and execution: six centuries of scandalous royal deaths

A baby wears pink.

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10 weird things that have happened in November

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EventIn conversation at Kew Gardens

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The big questionWhy did the west dominate history for so long?

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Q&AWhy are kissing gates so called and what is their significance as entrances to graveyards?

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A photograph of Queen Victoria c1887. (Alexander Bassano/Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

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9 of history's best quotes

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A brief history of camouflage

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A group of girls taking a bath as part of a contest to see who can wash the fastest.

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Q&AHow old is bathing?

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