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Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

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Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

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1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

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Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

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Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

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Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

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A medieval illustration of women fighting and toiling alongside men during a siege

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Crusader queens: the formidable female rulers of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

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Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

An illustration of a 17th century plague doctor

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A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

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Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

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Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

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Author and biographer Max Adams (Photo by Alamy)

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'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

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Henry the Young King is crowned in 1170. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

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The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

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A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

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Spitfires under construction at the Vickers Supermarine works in Southampton, around 1940

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The assassination of Julius Caesar

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Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

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Engraved portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America

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Terracotta plaque which is believed to show the poet Sappho rejecting an amorous advance by her contemporary who is also from the island of Lesbos. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

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A painting of Henry IV, housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London. English earls, Scottish kings, French dukes and a Welsh prince all tried to unseat Henry, yet this most resilient of medieval monarchs prevailed over them all. (Photo by Getty Images)

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An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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