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British prime minister Harold Wilson, March 1967. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Harold Wilson: 5 facts about the Labour Party prime minister

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Old cobblestone footpath at a park.

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A horse ambulance in the 19th century, and (inset, above) an advert for an RSPCA fund for horses. The number of beasts of burden working in cities rose rapidly in the Victorian era. (Photo by Alamy)

Beastly Victorians: the 19th-century fight for animal rights.

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A portrait of King George III, next to a shackle in the foreground of Buckingham palace.

Did the British royal family support slavery?

A sustainable, historical three-course feast: WW2 crumb fudge.

A sustainable, historical three-course feast: Victorian beef fritters.

This recipe – budget broccoli soup – utilises broccoli stalks left over from other dishes. (Photo courtesy of Eleanor Barnett)

A sustainable, historical three-course feast: budget broccoli soup.

Sepia image of workers at a Lancashire cotton mill

How people with learning disabilities thrived in the 20th century.

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A 1971 propaganda poster extolling the power of China’s cultural revolution

The long history of Chinese intelligence-gathering.

Jon working at the 12th-century Lanercost Priory in Cumbria, which was once home to an Augustinian order.

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Michael Wood on the Bangladesh Liberation War“From Africa to the Indian subcontinent, imperialism has left a trail of damage”.

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Britain’s squirrel wars: the 150-year battle between reds and greys.

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Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building.

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