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    October 2012

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    Victorian wedding, circa 1900: A wedding group poses in the garden, 1900. (Photo by F J Mortimer/Getty Images)
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    Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain

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    How Britain got the bomb

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    Christianity under Roman rule: a new church is born

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    A coloured engraving from the 16th century depicting Walter Ralegh's arrival in Virginia. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Tudors in America: how England’s New World colonies came into being

    Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler (left) pictured with Bill Sparks and Mary Lindell. It was "his ability to take ordinary men and give them the confidence and skills to do extraordinary things" that made him a hero, says Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    My history hero: ‘Blondie’ Hasler (1914–87)

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    A sketch of a young woman miner pulling a cart filled with coal. From the report of the Royal Commission, c1842. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

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    The Library | Where history happened: a history of disability

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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler sits at a table facing a group of young uniformed National Socialists crowded into a small room in the 'Braune Haus' or Brown House, Munich, Germany, c1935. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler

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    A relief showing Emperor Constantine's over Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge. (Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)
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    A big day in history: “A cross of light” leads Constantine to victory

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    5 big questions in global history

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    Viking

    Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000

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