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Addington and Napoleon facing each other across a narrow channel, from a caricature by James Gillray. Illustration from the magazine ‘The Graphic’, 9 July 1881. (Getty Images)

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Britain and France: the best of enemies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A proponent of same-sex marriage protests outside the Houses of Parliament, 3 June 2013. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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British prime minister Winston Churchill greeting the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. From left to right: Princess Elizabeth II; the Queen Mother; Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Vietnam

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Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto and a mountain in the background

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British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

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Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)

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From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

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A group of women cycling along the beach at Newquay, c1923. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

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A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)

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'Guerrilla' and the real history of British Black Power

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Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

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