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The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

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King George II of Great Britain

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Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

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School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

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Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes

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Sketch of the battle of Blore Heath, howing the final disastrous charge of the Lancastrians

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The Beatles pictured in 1969

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A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

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The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543). (Photo by: PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

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Part ten in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1450–1499

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The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England began in Brentwood, Essex as a protest at the collection of poll tax and reached a climax at Smithfield, London. Richard II (1367-1800) met the Kentish peasants who, under Watt Tyler (d1381), were demanding the end of serfdom. During the meeting William Walworth (d1385) Lord Mayor of London, wounded Wat Tyler who was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital but was later dragged out of the hospital and beheaded. 19th century lithograph. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

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Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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St Columba. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield

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