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"I read and studied much": Adolf Hitler at his Berghof mountain retreat in c1936.  (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

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The call for the First Crusade was initially made by Pope Urban (pictured) in 1095. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Ye olde travel guide: Calcutta 1905. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Clara Schumann (1819-96). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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Ye olde travel guide: Aksum AD 537. 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

A Mayan funeral mask, made from jadeite and shell

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The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David

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Ye olde travel guide: Philadelphia 1774. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Project uses 'crowd-sourcing' to decipher early handwriting

A ceiling fresco depicting Christ. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Christianity under Roman rule: a new church is born. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hampton Court Palace

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

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Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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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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9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Detail of a column showing Norman soldiers, c12th century. (CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A Victorian drawing room with pictures in heavy frames and ornately covered furniture, c1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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An illustration depicting medieval pilgrims. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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

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The Norman Conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England

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Mikado Maids

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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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Beware what you buy: the goods German citizens were forbidden to consume. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from an early 15th-century manuscript of the poem ‘De Regimine Principum’ by Thomas Hoccleve. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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A c15th-century vellum shows the Squire from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. For Adam Nicolson, the essence of the gentry was “government-through-networking”. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Angela Burdett-Coutts, an English philanthropist who supported a wide variety of charitable causes assisting the church, the poor and the hungry. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Philanthropy: the root of all good

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