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Lemuel F Abbott's famous 1797 portrait of Horatio Nelson. In 1805, the British naval hero promised to speak publicly against the abolition of slavery, but was denied the opportunity by his death at Trafalgar later that year. (Picture by Alamy)

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Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, c1806. (Photo by National Gallery Of Art/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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Fidel Castro addresses delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 1960. (Photo by Tommy Weber/AFP/Getty Images)

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Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico's left-wing president who in 1940 legalised drugs. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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How is the image of revolutionary Che Guevara commodified? Alex von Tunzelmann explores. (Photo by Francois ANCELLET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer

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A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806. (Photo by IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo)

Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton: the man behind the hit musical

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull (Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Alexander Hamilton: the rise and fall and rise of an American founding father

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81)

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Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Innocence under fire

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An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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The telegram that brought America into the First World War

Statue of Toussaint Louverture, Palais National, Haiti. (Photo by Getty Images)

My history hero: Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803)

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Fidel Castro: in pictures