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A medieval king dining

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Dr Michael Mosley holds up a tapeworm

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Fasil Ghebbi, a 17th-century fortress city in Gondar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Magic stone in Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea on September 27, 2009. This magic stone is hidden in a tree in Laraibina village. It is very useful to call the rain or to make some magic actions on people. It is forbidden to touch it, only the witch doctor can hold it. The same kind of stones exists in Vanuatu. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle, June 2020. “Accounts of the past have failed to properly address persecution,” says Peter Frankopan. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

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Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII

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QuizHenry VIII's wives

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

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Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

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American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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57 history questions for your home pub quiz

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The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’

The battle of First Bar, 1841

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The real Aztecs: brutal, bloodthirsty... and caring?

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York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

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A brief history of the English rose

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The death of a dream: why Europe's great year of revolution in 1848 failed

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

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The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

A miniature from the Codex Justinianus

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Plague, famine and sudden death: 10 dangers of the medieval period

Phyllis Schlafly

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Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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

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The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

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Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

Carved Pictish Stone in the Meigle Museum east of Blairgowrie, Scotland. (Photo by Alamy)

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A view of Mount Everest

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Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

Illustration from Dante's ‘Inferno', depicting thieves tormented in hell by serpents.

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A brief history of the afterlife

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