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Hallie Rubenhold photographed in London. "In the 19th century, being both poor and a woman was a terrible combination. The cards were stacked against them," she says. (Photography by Fran Monks)

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The queen's visit to the Welsh village of Aberfan

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The 1969 documentary was made amid a feeling that there was an increasing awareness of a need to ‘sell’ the monarchy to the people, writes historian Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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‘Royal Family’: the fly-on-the-wall documentary the Palace doesn’t want you to see. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II invests her eldest son, Prince Charles

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Charles, The Prince of Wales’s 1969 investiture at Caernarfon Castle, 50 years on

A young American woman gazes at a human skull, sent to her by a boyfriend during WW2

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Opinion: Midway’s treatment of the Japanese enemy highlights the power and limits of empathy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II

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Why has the British monarchy survived?

Sir Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

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Who was Sir Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five? Plus 4 others who spied for the Soviets

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The War of the Worlds. (Photo by BBC/© Mammoth Screen)

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Days of future past: how the new BBC TV series The War of the Worlds reinvented the sci-fi classic

Turkeys, bred in Norfolk, cover the facade of a London butcher's shop, 1929. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Shop ’till you drop: a brief history of Christmas shopping. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is the world still living in the shadow of the crusades?

Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

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6 of London theatre’s most notable historical scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Crown of Thorns allegedly worn by Christ during the Passion. It was one of the prized possessions in Notre-Dame Cathedral until April 2019 – when it was rescued by the inferno that gutted the building. (Photo by: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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"There was no feeling sorry for themselves": director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

11th November 1918: An army lorry in a London street on Armistice Day, carrying jubilant passengers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A detail from the Bayeux tapestry depicting the conquest of England by the Normans. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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9 medieval battles more significant than Agincourt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agincourt was one of the major battles of the Hundred Years' War.

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Timothée Chalamet as Prince Hal

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“It’s hard to square Prince Hal’s pacifism with what we know about Henry V”: a historian’s review of The King

Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance, Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace, after their engagement was announced, 10th July 1947. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

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A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

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A portrait of Henry V of England. The Treaty if Troyes, signed in 1420, saw Henry named Charles's regent; by marrying the latter's daughter, Katherine, Henry secured his position as heir to the throne. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

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Sketch of Guy Fawkes with a lantern kneeling in front of barrels of gunpowder

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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot: everything you need to know

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Michael Wood on a controversial term“As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

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'Yorktown' sustains a hit during the battle of Midway. The US aircraft carrier sank three days later but, by then, the Japanese had accepted that their attempt to land a war-winning blow had failed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Portrait of King Henry V. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon

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