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For our forebears, the secret to a good night's sleep lay in the contents of your gut. (Photo by Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

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A 15th-century map of the world illustrating a Latin edition of Ptolemy's the 'Geography'. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of "over-tourism” as visitors flock to the area to visit the show's scenic filming locations, tourism chiefs have warned. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen/Mike Hogan)

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Poldark, Peaky Blinders and 6 other historical TV shows that have tourists flocking to Britain

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c1916: British soldiers sitting around a lamp in their trench. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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10 First World War slang words we still use today

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St Fagans Castle and gardens

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How wild was the Wild West?

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Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, seated from left to right, in Yalta for the 'Big Three' Conference. In February 1945, British diplomats were already joking that it was actually a conference of the ‘Big Two-and-a-Half’. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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Winston Churchill gives his famous 'V for Victory' sign while addressing crowds from the balcony of City Hall in Sheffield, November 1941. Churchill's "inspirational" wartime speeches "galvanised the country and became part of our national lexicon", says historian Dr Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Capt. Horton/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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Women in traditional Welsh dress, c1896. (Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images)

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How is the image of revolutionary Che Guevara commodified? Alex von Tunzelmann explores. (Photo by Francois ANCELLET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Richard II sails down the Thames to Greenwich to meet the rebels.

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The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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A painting depicts a 14th-century sea battle

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Panorama of Machu Picchu

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Live Aid stage at Wembley, London, in 1985

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Between 1613 and 1754, a legal loophole meant that on-the-spot marriages could be carried out in an area surrounding the Fleet Debtors’ Prison known as the ‘Liberties of the Fleet’. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A 19th-century painted glass rolling pin and wooden pastry jigger. (Photo ©Emma Kay)

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