10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The battle of First Bar, 1841

Victorian

Your guide to...the Opium Wars

The original ‘Big Three’ at Livadia Palace in Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. None of them came away from the summit with everything they had hoped for. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to...The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806. (Photo by IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo)

Georgian

The dark side of Alexander Hamilton

Phyllis Schlafly

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Huge sun setting over power lines and palm trees in California. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A girl, with her brother on her back, trudges past a stalled American tank, South Korea, June 1951. (Photo by Alamy)

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Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France meet (in marquee, top) at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520. “For all their expressions of friendship,” writes Glenn Richardson, “the two kings spent most of the summit attempting to outshine one another”. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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English admiral Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), circa 1585. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Abraham Lincoln (Photo by Library of Congress)

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John Profumo in October 1962

20th Century

Sex, lies and spies: the real history of the Profumo Affair

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

Medieval

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Picture of Luddites destroying machinery

Industrial revolution

Your guide to…The Luddite movement

Harold Wilson in 1971, after his first period as prime minister. He would take power again in 1974. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Irish people starving during the Potato Famine

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Harvest time in Surrey in the mid-19th century. Powerful Tory landowners had agitated for the introduction of the Corn Laws to protect the income from their farms. (Photo by Christie's Images via Bridgman)

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Traditional Kente cloth from Ghana (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Ramsay MacDonald, the first British Labour prime minister, pictured after the general election of 1931

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A brief history of the Labour Party

Two American soldiers wait for the second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division during Operation Pershing during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War defined America in the second half of the 20th century. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

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"We cannot walk alone": 26 August 1963 – As they hold hands, Martin Luther King Jr and the other leaders of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom make history. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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Nancy Astor on the campaign trail in 1919

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The Cato Street conspiracy

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Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump

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