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Peaky Blinders V. (Image by BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd 2019/Robert Viglasky)

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Great Pyramid of Giza

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The Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819 was the bloodiest political event of the 19th century on English soil. Troops under the authority of the Lancashire and Cheshire magistrates attacked and dispersed a rally of some 50,000 reformers on St Peter’s Field, Manchester. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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Richard III's Yorkist troops fight Lancastrians in the battle of Bosworth, during the Wars of the Roses, 22 August 1485. King Richard was killed by Henry of Richmond, who became Henry VII. Engraving after Philip James de Loutherbourg. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Bonaparte Crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Mary, Queen of Scots and her ladies-in-waiting. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Soldiers standing on the western front during WW2

Second World War

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An illustration of King Arthur's coronation, from the 13th-century Flores Historiarum. Taken from ‘The Island Race’, a 20th-century book written by Sir Winston Churchill that covers the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the Victorian era. (Photo by World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A Victorian lady washing in the nude

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c50 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, the last and most famous of the Ptolemaic dynasty. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

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An aerial view of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (Photo by David Goddard/Getty Images)

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