Dockers unloading wine barrels

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The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II

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Statue of Liberty. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Turkeys, bred in Norfolk, cover the facade of a London butcher's shop, 1929. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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The Crown of Thorns allegedly worn by Christ during the Passion. It was one of the prized possessions in Notre-Dame Cathedral until April 2019 – when it was rescued by the inferno that gutted the building. (Photo by: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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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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East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

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A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

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A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield

Victorian

Why Britain punched above its weight

King John out hunting

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A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

20th CenturygalleryIn pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

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Q&AWho do we say 'put a sock in it'?

Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, in San Francisco during a visit to America, November 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images)

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“Cheap men and expensive bottles”: Princess Margaret’s love affairs

Scores of people milled about the entrance to the Stock Exchange on 24 October 1929, as the market went through the greatest shake up in its history. It was a light tremor heralding the earthquake to come. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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Extinction Rebellion take over Trafalgar Square, London, in protest on 16 October 2019. (Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

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Gin Lane, a print issued in 1751 by painter and printmaker William Hogarth. It depicts the perceived evils of the consumption of gin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Georgian

The 18th-century craze for gin

The Monteagle letter, which shares a warning about the Gunpowder Plot. (National Archives)

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In their own words: 6 of history’s most fascinating letters

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The trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover: how the 'obscene' book caused a moral storm

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

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A cartoon from 1862 shows a pair 'garroters' attacking a victim. (Photo by The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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

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History explorerA wealth of history: Laversham, Sulfolk

Cardinal John Henry Newman

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This 1867 magazine illustration shows a group of children preparing for Halloween. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

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Cariad Lloyd, Suzannah Lipscomb and Greg Jenner

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Daisy Dunn.

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

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Victorian

The package holiday revolution

The cast of Downton Abbey in front of Highclere Castle

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