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Walt Disney uses a baton to point to sketches of Disneyland

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Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous after World War II for his work as a 'Nazi hunter'. (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The real Nazi hunters: how the infamous escaped – and those who brought them to justice

Pocahontas and John Smith in Disney's ‘Pocahontas’ (1995). (Photo by AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Disney history: how has the corporation shaped our perception of the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How William Shakespeare shaped America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A James Gillray cartoon: 'Germans eating sour-krout'.

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Cabbages and kings: how Georgian royals brought continental food to the British menu. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet

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Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Greg Jenner. (Photo by Frank Monks)

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Scotland's cry for liberty: the Declaration of Arbroath. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rosa Parks (right) riding on a bus following the Supremacial segregation on Montgomery's public transit system. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Portrait of Madam CJ Walker, America's first female millionaire. (Photo courtesy of Madam Walker Family Archives/A'Lelia Bundles)

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Self Made: the real story of Madam CJ Walker, America’s first black female millionaire

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Misbehaviour at Miss World: what happened at the 1970 beauty pageant?

The congregation in Westminster Cathedral, London, during National Prayer Day, 7 September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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'The Poor Actress's Christmas Dinner', a painting by pre-Raphaelite artist Robert Braithwaite Martineau, says much about the way Victorians had begun to understand the problem of loneliness. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

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A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their third son, Prince Edward, on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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17th September 1936: The British minister of health, Sir Kingsley Wood, watches nurses weighing newborn twins during a visit to Southmead Hospital in Bristol to see the work local authorities were doing for the maintenance and improvement of health and housing conditions. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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The Duchess of Richmond's ball

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The reconcilliation between Thomas Becket and Henry II. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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From the handshake to the high-five: a brief history of gestures. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A nurse, a banker and… a TV producer? The royals through history who have held other jobs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The cast of Belgravia

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A line-up of girls ready to play football, somewhere in England during the First World War, c1917. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

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A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

Queen Elizabeth greets the crowd from the top of a huge elephant minutely decorated during a walk to the gates of the Jaipur Palace, c1961 in Jaipur, India. (Photo by Keystone-FranceGamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Female aviators Dorothy Spicer and Pauline Gower in a bungalow in Reading, 9 September 1931. Gower later became an officer of the Air Transport Auxiliary's No 5 Ferry Pilots Pool. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Christine de Pizan. (Photo by Getty Images)

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