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Harry Houdini escape artist props to go under hammer

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Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1715

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American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

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Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

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Money: The Unauthorised Biography

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New website charts London's well-being across 125 years

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“Forbear wine and tobacco”: advice for 17th-century university freshers revealed

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"People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do"

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Bright ideas

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'Britain needs police museum' says crime historian

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Music used 'to torment victims of torture in Pinochet’s Chile'

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

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Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

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Christians 'airbrushed women out of history'

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