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Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

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An early 20th century postcard showing young girls dressed in their Sunday best at a temperance rally.

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Diners watch a waitress chalk up the dishes offered on the day's menu at a British Restaurant in Gillingham, 1941. (Photo by Reuben Saidman/ Popperfoto via Getty Images)

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Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The remains of the Amesbury Archer (2400-2200BC), a burial found near Stonehenge and about 4300 years old, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.

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Good King Hal

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My life in historyMike Farley, Henry VIII impersonator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1450 farmworkers planting seeds and harrowing a ploughed field.

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Medieval wellness: how our New Year’s resolutions mirror the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll: maker of wonderlands

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

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What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

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27th April 1946: Miners and steelworkers in Tredegar pay the Workmen's Medical Aid Society twopence out of every pound they earn to go towards their medical, dental and optical services. A nurse bends over a small boy to see to his injuries. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4062 - Where Bevan Got His National Health Plan - pub. 1946

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Emblema of Cleopatra Selene

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Ghetto in Charkov Photo 1941 World War Two Russian Campaign Occupation of Charkov capital of the Ukraine

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Illustration depicting the first hot air balloon flight in America, piloted by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1793.

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A painting by Dutch artist Hendrick Danckerts shows Charles II’s gardener, John Rose, presenting the king with a pineapple

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Illustration of figures holding hand

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Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

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Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today's industrial action

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Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

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The commandos head off in José Ferrer’s Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

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A painting of Marie Antoinette in 1775

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A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

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Image shows King Stephen, the last Norman King of England

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Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

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Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

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Alexander the Great dressed as a Byzantine emperor

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The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the "degradation" of Alfred Dreyfus during which his sword was snapped over a warrant officer’s knee (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images)

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The Imperial State Crown, which alone has 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 5 rubies is a priceless symbol of the British monarchy (Picture by Getty)

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Glass of champagne

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