People watching the Royal Wedding

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A glass of wine and dish

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The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

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Solving the mystery of the Elephant Man?

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

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Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

A Christmas card from the First World War

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First World War Christmas cards

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Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Cold War in your living room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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The race to save western Europe's 'rarest historic buildings'

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Conspiracy to murder?

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Last living British person born in 1800s dies

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Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1715

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The other Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

1914: Why Britain had to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

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Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

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