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Nancy Astor on the campaign trail in 1919

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A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House, London

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During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Henrietta Boyle

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A bust of Charlemagne

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William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

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The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

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Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

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Thomas Blood stealing the Crown Jewels

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The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

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Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

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Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

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Tudor

Scandalous Tudor marriages: 7 women who braved royal wrath by marrying for love

Edward VI

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Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence

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Portrait of Prince Albert

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Westminster Abbey, London

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Rotten boroughs cartoon

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A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

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Edwardian hat pin head found on the Thames shore. (Photo by Bloomsbury)

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

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Nicola Tallis photographed by David Hampton in October 2019

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

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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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