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Antique double-hemisphere map of the world, complete with landscapes and mythological scenes. (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

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A relief showing Emperor Constantine's over Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge. (Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

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Gasmark 200

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Bob Hope's Red Scare

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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Cowdray, West Sussex

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Visit historic Carlisle

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

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Rochester Castle

The "hauntingly beautiful" Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, was never at ease in Vienna's stuffy court. (Getty Images)

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Ptolemy World map. Artist: Germanus, Donnus Nicolaus (ca. 1420-ca. 1490)

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A British waitress serves American servicemen inside Rainbow Corner, Piccadilly, January 1945. (Getty Images)

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First World War

The Great War

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Why we should celebrate the First World War as well as commemorate it

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Shibden Hall, Halifax

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Sudley House, Liverpool

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Digitisation project sheds new light on Home Guard

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The Georges

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent

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Weobley Castle, Swansea

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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The correct piece of paper

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Was there ever an execution where rain saved someone from being burned at the stake?

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The Day Parliament Burned Down

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Argyll’s Lodging, Stirling

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