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In pictures: the history of Marvel comic books

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The history of Sherlock Holmes - in pictures

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William Blake: Apprentice and Master

A colour image of military guns during World War One

First World WargalleryThe First World War in colour

Victoriangallery10 amazing Punch magazine sketches from 1859 to 1981

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Voltaire, Vanessa Bell and Joan of Arc: 3 things that happened On This Day 30 May

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

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The LibraryFirst ladies of art: three trailblazing female artists from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History MagazinegalleryIn pictures: Great British Drawings

A poster showing an image from the history of drinking

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The strange history of drinking

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18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

A Christmas card from the First World War

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The other Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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First ever kangaroo and dingo paintings to remain in UK

A poster from the First World War.

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‘Earliest portrait of guinea pig’ revealed in unseen painting

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Museum bid to acquire ‘new world’ George Stubbs paintings

George Frederick Handel married opera's passion with the respectability of biblical texts, says Tim Blanning. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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10 milestones in the history of western music. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary

British political cartoonist David Low. His caricatures of political figures including Hitler resulted in him being placed in the Nazi 'Black Book' – a list of prominent Britons who were to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images

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A portrait of Russian queen Catherine the Great

GeorgiangalleryIn pictures: Catherine the Great

A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)

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A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

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Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in the centre of Florence (Getty) 

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The Eidophusikon

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From pop to politics, the ancient world is here to stay

A painting from a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. 'The Cult of Beauty' explores the 19th-century artistic movement of Aestheticism.

VictoriangalleryThe cult of beauty

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Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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