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Margaret Thatcher enters Downing Street

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Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

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A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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12 facts about the Stuarts

A portrait of Louis XIV in 1701.

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From musketeers to Macron: 10 remarkable facts about the Sun King, Louis XIV

Rotten boroughs cartoon

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9 general election curiosities through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the American Revolution created a global storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A voter in a British election in 1923.

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Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

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Tourists at Stonehenge

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The Cunard liner Lusitania

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Queen Elizabeth I

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"All unperfect and incorrect”: Tracy Borman on the discovery of an Elizabethan gem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 15th-century miniature from 'La Vraye Histoire du Bon Roy Alixandre'. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A stained glass depiction of the nativity.

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A statue of Leif Eriksson, Erik the Red's son, who sailed to North America, c1000 AD. (Image by RF/Getty Images)

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Einstein on the run

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Knole, a house on an epic scale that's now run by the National Trust.

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A c1880 Christmas card shows a frog committing murder

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Oskar Schindler, who prevented hundreds of Jews from being murdered in the Holocaust

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Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

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Lauren Bruner and Iyozo Fujita

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Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement

A 'Thanksgiving Greetings' postcard. (Photo by K.J. Historical/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

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Isabella I of Castile: Europe’s greatest queen?

The ninth-century Alfred Jewel, adorned with the inscription: "Alfred ordered me to be made". This masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art is thought to have been an aestel, a pointer used to follow text. (Picture by Alamy)

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President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas governor John Connally ride through the streets of Dallas

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Viking ships arriving in Britain, c1130. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty

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