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Was Sarah Guppy the real inventor of the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

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The most popular historical figures you've (probably) never heard of

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A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Queen Victoria c1887. (Alexander Bassano/Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

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9 of history's best quotes

Illustration by Arthur Rackham to the play ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ by William Shakespeare. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A combo picture of two images taken 13 August 2002 at Cairo Museum shows a foot of a mummy missing its big toe and beside it a prosthetic toe of leather and wood to replace the amputated real one. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

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The history of consumerism and Chinese philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

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Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, interior from drawing by Johannes de Witt. The Shakespearian theatre, erected c1593 on Bankside – could hold 3,000 spectators – typical of the time. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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At the playhouse: watching Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German astronomer Johannes Kepler c1620. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

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Student life and working class culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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How Shakespeare rewrote history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

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An illustration from an 11th-century manuscript depicting a king and his minister doing justice, c1050. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Democracy and an age of genius. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Franciscans treating victims of the plague, miniature from La Franceschina, c1474, codex by Jacopo Oddi. Perugia, Biblioteca Capitolare (Library). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The hospital experience in medieval England

View of an Ancient Eyptian burial chamber

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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The Tudor sex guide

An illustration of Edmund Spenser’s poetic work ‘The Shepheardes Calender’. (Photo by Culture Club/Contributor/Getty Images)

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The dark side of Elizabethan England

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