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London traffic. (Photo by Popper Ltd./ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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The history of Britain’s roads

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Bearded Victorian man. (Photo by Getty Images)

Victorian

A brief history of beards

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

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My favourite place: Bruges, Belgium

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The future Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace following their wedding, 20 November 1947. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

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The rise of the Great British 'bobby': a brief history of Britain's police service

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11 shocking moments in history

Old Wardour Castle

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Britain’s 7 most amazing ruins

A poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool

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Napoleon Bonaparte of France. (Hulton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images)

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Designer duo, husband and wife Robin and Lucienne Day, 1955. The pair “were perhaps the greatest British man and wife design team there has ever been”, says Wayne Hemingway. (Photo by Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Bikes on a canal in Amsterdam and the Basilica of Saint Nicholas church in the background. (Photo by maydays via Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Amsterdam, Netherlands

John Julius Norwich pictured at the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

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Operators dealing with emergency calls at New Scotland Yard, London, c1956. (Photo by Reg Speller/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Paris, France

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6 trivial decisions that changed British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton: the man behind the hit musical. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

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A portrait of Charles Dickens. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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A British soldier uses a searchlight to spot German aircraft during the Second World War. Britain has lived with the fear of invasion for several centuries, a fact reflected in its architecture, its art and its people’s mental health. (Photo by David Savill/Getty Images)

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Edward, Prince of Wales, in the rear seat of a Bristol F.2B Fighter with Captain WG Barker of No. 139 Squadron during his flight in 1918, while on a visit to the Italian Front. (Crown Copyright/Air Historical Branch image H1608)

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Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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The secret history of the Berlin Wall

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Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Oaxaca Mexico

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Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

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Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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