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Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

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Portrait of Ide B Wells

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Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

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Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

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A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

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The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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A runner is helped across a finish line

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A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

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Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight an adaptation of the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

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The Persian ambassador bows before Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles

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Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images) 

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Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

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Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

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Mao Zedong applauds a parade of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. These young militants followed Mao’s call in early August 1966 to defend the party from a ‘white terror’. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace

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Queen Elizabeth I dancing with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Artist unknown. (© Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy)

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The first modern Olympics at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens

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Medieval romances were sometimes considered subversive material. This scene from the Roman de la Rose, written in the 13th century, depict two lovers. In later centuries, it was said romances “inflamed beastly and filthy desire”

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Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier’s painting portrays the Declaration of the Rights of Man

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Robespierre is guillotined on 28 July 1794. Had he died two years earlier, his name would now be associated with liberty and equality, argues Marisa Linton. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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A late 18th-century painting depicting the execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution

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Camille and Lucile Desmoulins

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Antony and Cleopatra meet for the first time

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The vanquishers of the Bastille before the Hôtel de Ville, 14 July 1789. Found in the Collection of Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A colourised portrait of Anton Chekhov, from 1901

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