The charge of the light, battle illustration

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A bust of Charlemagne

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William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

Stuart

Your guide to...the Glorious Revolution

Youths salute Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler Youth: how the Third Reich used children’s organisations to wage war

Indian soldiers during WWI

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Medieval

6 lesser-known facts about the Ottoman Empire

American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

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German prisoners of war

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A still from Sam Mendes film '1917'

First World War

“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917

A despatch rider during WW1, as featured in new Sam Mendes film '1917'

First World War

The real trench runners of WW1

Peronne, March 1917

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William the Conqueror (1027–87), king of England from 1066 when he beat Harold II at the battle of Hastings. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Norman

9 surprising facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest

A vintage colour postcard, possibly produced to send Christmas greetings from the frontline, somewhere on the Western Front, during the First World War, c1918. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

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German submarine on mission in the Atlantic ocean, 1942/1943 (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

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Lauren Bruner and Iyozo Fujita

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A young American woman gazes at a human skull, sent to her by a boyfriend during WW2

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Medieval

Is the world still living in the shadow of the crusades?

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A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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11th November 1918: An army lorry in a London street on Armistice Day, carrying jubilant passengers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A detail from the Bayeux tapestry depicting the conquest of England by the Normans. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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Agincourt was one of the major battles of the Hundred Years' War.

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'Yorktown' sustains a hit during the battle of Midway. The US aircraft carrier sank three days later but, by then, the Japanese had accepted that their attempt to land a war-winning blow had failed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon

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A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield

Victorian

Why Britain punched above its weight

Simon the cat

General Modern

10 top cats in history

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