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Dinosaur dung became a valuable commodity in 19th century Cambridgeshire. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

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A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York

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John of Gaunt shown in a c16th-century portrait

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Tostig Godwinson, brother of King Harold II of England, and King Harald Hardrada of Norway receive the submission of the city of York

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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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An illustration of Henry VII, surrounded by Tudor roses. In the background there are shadows of those who challenged for his throne.

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A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as they crossed the south coast of England during the Battle of Britain, 1940. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle

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An Anglo-Saxon cross from the church of St Michael

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Workers lower the bodywork of a Standard Vanguard car onto its chassis in a factory

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A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

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Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

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Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

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Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

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Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

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