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Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump

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A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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US academic Deborah Lipstadt exults the High Court in London after winning a libel case brought against her by British historian David Irving, 11 April 2000. (Photo by Martyn Hayhow/AFP/Getty Images)

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Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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An Art Deco mechanical valentine (moving the cape causes the arms to move up and down) from the 1930s. (Photo by Alan Mays)

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Confronting evils.

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The Battle of Lepanto between Holy League soldiers and Ottoman troops

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A replica of the Koh-i-Noor in Bangalore in 2002

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A history of nakedness in art: Mary Beard on her new BBC series Shock of the Nude

John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

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Historian Mary Beard at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Democratic presidential candidates Birch Bayh, Jimmy Carter, Fred R Harris, Milton Shapp take on the press during the Iowa Democratic Caucus on 11 January 1976. (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

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Members of the royal family at an event marking the centenary of the Royal Air Force. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

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Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

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Illustation of a pope

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Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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David Bowie and Twiggy

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Rotten boroughs cartoon

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British writer Roald Dahl

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Harlech Castle with Snowdonia in the background.

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A brief history of Wales: the resilient nation

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Statue of Liberty. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

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Simon the cat

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