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Napoleon is apprehended by French soldiers on his return from Elba. Rather than take him to Paris in chains, the soldiers joined him

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Napoleon's comeback: from exile on Elba to the Hundred Days

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A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

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The 2008 financial crisis explained

A 1782 cartoon by James Gillray that depicts Buller as ‘Judge Thumb’. (Photo by Library of Congress)

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Q&AWhy do we say ‘rule of thumb’?

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

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No 10 Downing Street has been home to dozens of prime ministers (and numerous cats) since the iconic residence was first offered to Sir Robert Walpole

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23 things you (probably) didn't know about No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain's prime ministers

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Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

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How our hunger for land shaped history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

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1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

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To beard or not to beard? Facial hair through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Sathnam Sanghera discusses where we can see the legacy of imperialism in Britain today

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View of a gay pride parade in Boston, Massachusetts, c1977. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

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22 of the best historical fiction novels to help you escape to the past

Smokey the bear is presented with a firefighter's helmet

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The paratrooper, the poet's pet and the real Winnie: 10 famous bears in history

Margaret MacMillan gives a lecture on the reasons for conflict throughout history – and how warfare has shaped the human story (Photo by Getty Images)

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An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

Richard Nixon resigns

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Which US presidents have been impeached? A brief history of presidential impeachment

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Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Winston Churchill on roller skates

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Richard III, Queen Victoria and Henry VIII. (Photos by Getty Images)

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Monarchy history quiz: test your knowledge of these kings and queens

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