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Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

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Ernest Bevin

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Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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The Minack Theatre, Cornwall

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

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Line engraving depicting the burning of Rawlins White, c1555. From a late 18th-century edition of John Foxe's 'The Book of Martyrs'. (Alamy)

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English medical student Roger Bannister

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Glenluce Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail

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Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

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Dave Musgrove talk at Kenwood House

Ironbridge

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Murder most horrid

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Chair used for the last execution at the Tower of London, c1940. Wooden chair on which the German Corporal Josef Jakobs was seated when he was shot as a spy in the Tower of London in August 1941. Two of the spindles have been shot away and the frame broken by bullets. Jakobs, who was seated due to an injured leg, was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. (Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Armouries / HIP / TopFoto)

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Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500–2010

Whithorn Priory, Dumfries and Galloway

Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

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The Kings of Alba: c1000–c1130

Royston Cave, Hertfordshire

A portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from an early 15th-century manuscript of the poem ‘De Regimine Principum’ by Thomas Hoccleve. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Cornish invention

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An illustration from ‘A Short History of the English People’ by John Richard Green. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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