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This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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General Modern

Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

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Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

Chinese irregular cavalry and infantry from the north-western provinces move towards the front during the 1894–95 war

VictoriangalleryChina's wars

A Christmas card from the First World War

First World WargalleryFirst World War Christmas cards

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Second World War

Myth of foreign Nazi volunteers ‘debunked’

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My favourite historical places: Dr Elaine Farrell

Viking

Renewed debate over battle of Hastings location

Nelson and Winnie Mandela days after his release, 1990. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis)

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My favourite historical places: Dr Julie Barrau

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Harry Houdini escape artist props to go under hammer

Tudor

Revealed: the tomb of Henry VIII's forgotten son

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Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The race to save western Europe's 'rarest historic buildings'

Medieval

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

First World War

Conspiracy to murder?

Medieval

Disability history

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My favourite historical places: Joanna Innes

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