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A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A history of the high street

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What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

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England in miniature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The Atlantic and Its Enemies

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The reverend in the lion’s den

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‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), pictured here c1895, is one of the most important figures in modern Russian literature. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The English writer and radio broadcaster JB Priestley at home on the Isle of Wight, 1933. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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The Alfred Jewel: gold, rock, crystal and enamel

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Objects of affection

Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná, Paraguay, where the bell tower of the site's first of two churches stands. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and were abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. (Photo by Kevin Moloney via Getty Images)

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A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

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Looking back at The End of History

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Andrew Marr pictured in London in July 2015. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

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Sir Robert Peel Monument in Piccadilly Gardens, London. (Photo by P A Thompson via Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat is the origin of the phrase ‘going postal’, meaning ‘going berserk’?

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Stop and search: what can we learn from history?

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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The school leaving age: what can we learn from history?

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The members of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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The 10 worst Britons in history

Alien spaceship landing on rural road

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AcademyWearing your allegiance

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