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Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer

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English philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Sunlight dapples a clearing in Sherwood Forest, which was an essential resource for peasants centuries before it became a tourist attraction (Photo by Alamy)

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Keith Thomas. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons fled to Ireland after the Battle of Hastings, where they lived as guests of the King of Leinster. (Photo by Duncan1890 via Getty Images)

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Historian John Ashdown-Hill

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Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

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A brief history of beards

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Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

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The rise of the Great British 'bobby': a brief history of Britain's police service

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

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Richard Burbage

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8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Thomas Becket

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Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Henry VIII “regarded his wars as the worthy successors of the great martial victories of England’s past”, says Steven Gunn. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

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A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

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What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

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