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Glenluce Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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An 18th century village in Germany. Strict laws regulated the goods that each social class could buy. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Ironbridge

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Murder most horrid

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Chair used for the last execution at the Tower of London, c1940. Wooden chair on which the German Corporal Josef Jakobs was seated when he was shot as a spy in the Tower of London in August 1941. Two of the spindles have been shot away and the frame broken by bullets. Jakobs, who was seated due to an injured leg, was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. (Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Armouries / HIP / TopFoto)

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Whithorn Priory, Dumfries and Galloway

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Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

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The Siege of Antioch during the First Crusade, c1200. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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It was in this villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee that one of history’s most infamous conferences was staged. (Getty) 

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A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

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The Glorious First of June

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Tomb raiders threaten Chinese heritage

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The Kings of Alba: c1000–c1130

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Royston Cave, Hertfordshire

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