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Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh presented by Viking Cruises opens at the Saatchi Gallery on 2 November. Tickets on-sale now, please visit: www.tutankhamun-london.com

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One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

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Half-timbered medieval cottages, Water Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, England, (Photo by Getty Images)

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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) (Photo by Getty Images)

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Orlando Figes on the transformation of Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A painting by Italian painter Defendente Ferrari (c1480-1540) showing a Saint performing a miracle.

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Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in a tutu

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A gamer plays the video game 'Red Dead Redemption II', an action-adventure and multi-platform western video game developed by Rockstar Studios released on October 26, 2018. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

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Courtiers dancing La Volta in a scene from 1953 film The Sword And The Rose

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Literary women through the ages: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë all enjoyed female friendships which enriched their writing, say Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney. (Getty Images)

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Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of "over-tourism” as visitors flock to the area to visit the show's scenic filming locations, tourism chiefs have warned. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen/Mike Hogan)

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Revealed: the history of America’s national anthem

The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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20th Centurygallery10 photographs that made history

Live Aid stage at Wembley, London, in 1985

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Between 1613 and 1754, a legal loophole meant that on-the-spot marriages could be carried out in an area surrounding the Fleet Debtors’ Prison known as the ‘Liberties of the Fleet’. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Japanese troops celebrate the capture of a British artillery position, Hong Kong, December 1941 (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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The ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus, which boasts superb acoustics and aesthetics. (Photo by Alamy)

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A c1830 portrait of the scandalous but sublimely talented Lorenzo da Ponte. (Photo by Alamy)

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Thessaloniki's Rotunda of Galerius, Greece, built in the fourth-century by Roman occupiers

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustration by Kate Greenaway, 1888. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The regions of Britain in 1635, before the 1707 Acts of Union that united England and Scotland. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Married architects Alison and Peter Smithson at work, October 1961. The pair were architect members of the Independent Group and had an impact on the British urban scene via what became known as ‘New Brutalism’. (Photo by Davies/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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In 1877, a major rebellion in Kyushu concentrated the opposition of conservative elements to the westernization of Japan. (Photo by Asian Art/Getty Images)

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The Beatles with Ed Sullivan

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Aleksander Kulisiewicz, wearing a concentration camp uniform, performs at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Italy, 1965. (Image: Kulisiewicz family)

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