Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

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Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

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An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

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An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

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A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

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Statue of Leif Erikson (Leifur Erikssonn) in front of Eric the Red's home. (Photo by Draper White, Getty Images)

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Félix Kir in 1947, when he was the mayor of Dijon

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History heroSimon Farnaby chooses Félix Kir (1876–1968)

19th century advert for snuff

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Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

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British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

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Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

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The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

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Habsburg dynasty: Maria Theresa, her husband Francis I

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Vahalla is depicted as a round-topped building in this funerary stone from 8th-century Sweden

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A miller and a donkey

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Marble bust of Nero

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Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

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Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

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One of the burial mounds at Sutton Hoo

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