Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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The Siege of Antioch during the First Crusade, c1200. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

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Royston Cave, Hertfordshire

A portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from an early 15th-century manuscript of the poem ‘De Regimine Principum’ by Thomas Hoccleve. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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A c15th-century vellum shows the Squire from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. For Adam Nicolson, the essence of the gentry was “government-through-networking”. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The Tower of London. More than 30 inmates successfully broke out of the royal fortress between the 12th and 18th centuries. (Photo by Tetra Images/Getty Images)

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A portrait of King Edward III. By using his offspring as pawns in a series of alliances, the king hoped to wield power over a confederation of dependent states bound together by feudal and family ties. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey

A scene from the Chronique de St Denis depicting the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France, 1137. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire

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Magna Carta

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Roche Abbey, Yorkshire

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Anne of Cleves House, East Sussex

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Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan

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Clare Priory, Suffolk

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Pieces from the Lewis Chessmen, some of the earliest chessmen to survive.

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Conwy Castle, Conwy

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A Saracen attack on Crusaders, from the French manuscript 'Chroniques de Saint Denis', c1200. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury

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5 of the worst smells in medieval London

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