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The vulgar tower

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Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images) 

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William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and British prime minister from 1782–83, was instrumental in the Genevan exiles’ move to southern Ireland. (Getty Images) 

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German bomber insurance

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A Rough Justice

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Rabbit holiday

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Thrash away!

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Golf vs Work

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The Schartz-Metterklume Method

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Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

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A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)

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Two medieval men thresh a sheaf of wheat in this 14th century illustration. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Queen's silver jubilee took place in 1977. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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Why the Seventies still matter

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Who's winning?

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Holocaust

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The patient

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Going public: history beyond the academy

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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England

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Painting depicting medieval nuns. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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