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Painting showing the surrender at Yorktown – a man on a horse moves between two lines of cavalry

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The battle of Brooklyn (aka the battle of Long Island), 27 August 1776

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Protesters urge the government to help elderly people with their energy bills at Downing Street in 2022

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A late 18th-century portrait of proto-feminist and first lady Abigail Adams

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A portrait of Benjamin Franklin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Hildegard of Bingen

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Jackie Weaver and Elizabeth I

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The first major clash of the war of American independence, at Bunker Hill

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A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

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An oil painting by Benjamin West shows some of the main belligerents of the Seven Years’ War, a conflict that lay the foundations for future discord between Native Americans and the British and French empires

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An overturned vehicle on tramlines as a blockage to traffic during the General Strike of 1926

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The Spanish flee Tenochtitlan under fierce fire during La Noche Triste.

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New Yorkers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

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Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie

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The shot that sparked the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marguerite de Navarre

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Nisha Katona and Samuel Pepys

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October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn

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Book cover of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Clare Jackson with her Wolfson History Prize winning book, Devil-land

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Diane de Poitiers. As the mistress of Henry II of France, she had incredible and indescribable influence over the French king.

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Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

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A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

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US president Richard Nixon in 1970

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Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

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Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

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