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    Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images) 
    Second World War

    The Library The world in flames

    Procession portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Elizabethan

    How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne

    Sultan Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Stuart

    Ye Olde Travel Guide: Meknes 1681

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    A photograph of J Meade Falkner, c1915. He
    Victorian

    My history hero: J Meade Falkner (1858-1932)

    The Flight of Bonaparte from the Battle of Krasnoi, 1815. Artist: Sutherland, Thomas (1785-1838)
    Georgian

    How Napoleon was humbled

    Durham Cathedral on a sunny day. Taken near to the water of the River Wear. (Dreamstime)
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    Where history happened: pilgrimage

    Richard I (also known as Richard the Lionheart) frequently dated documents with the 'regnal year'. An example of this might be
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    A legacy of the lionheart

    The charge of the Scots Greys at the battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815, was immortalised in this famous painting of 1881 by Lady Elizabeth Butler (1846-1933). (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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    Fighting Scots

    Hitler greets admirers when he was still enormously popular. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
    Second World War

    Dear Mr Hitler

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