Dockers unloading wine barrels

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The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

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A carving of the Sator Square, 2nd-4th century

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The House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration

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Your guide toThe South Sea Bubble

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

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Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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Christmas merriment in an old English manor in the 1500s

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A montage of images, including: Ukrainians in Rome protest against the Russian invasion; 2: Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai- shek (right) in 1949, when he retreated to Taiwan; 3: The future Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III, 1950; 4: Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and prime minister Liz Truss, October 2022

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The characters Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, from Charles Dickens's work 'A Christmas Carol'

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Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas as we know it today?

An illustration of the Great Fire of London, c1675. St Paul's Cathedral is seen in flames (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Ancient Egypt

The dark side of ancient Egypt

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

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20th Century

The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

Sæberht of Essex, who oversaw the building of London’s original church of St Paul’s (Photo by The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo)

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A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

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A history of medicine14 surprising facts

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Hidden livesVictorian fasting girls

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

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David Dimbleby commands the studio during the May 1997 general election

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Grave of a fallen soldier in World War I

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Britain’s harsh winter of 1880–81 depicted as the start of a new ice age, by contemporary cartoonist George du Maurier (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Theban mural showing people plucking geese. (Photo by DEA / G Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

Life in Ancient Egypt: what was it like?

The queen – dressed in dark clothing – stands up from a table to deliver a speech

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Annus HorribilisWhat happened in the Queen’s horrible year?

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A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

Second World WargalleryThe stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich

An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Victorian

Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

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A scene from the Luttrell Psalter, c1330, gives an idealised insight into everyday life in 14th-century rural England

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Anthony Eden addresses BBC cameras in 1956

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A child cooks on an open fire in a medieval home (Photo by: Prisma/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Industrial revolution

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