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Margaretha Geertruida Zelle called Mata Hari (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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Dornier 217 bombers of the Luftwaffe bomb London during the Battle of Britain.

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c1916: British soldiers sitting around a lamp in their trench. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Winston Churchill gives his famous 'V for Victory' sign while addressing crowds from the balcony of City Hall in Sheffield, November 1941. Churchill's

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Vintage postcard showing Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and a pet corgi. (Photo by the History Press)

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The Scotland women’s team, featuring international star Rose Reilly (centre, pictured playing in a French league), played their first official international match in 1972. (Photo by Daily Record/Mirropix/Getty Images)

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Sergeant Stubby, an American dog who served as the mascot of America's 102nd Infantry Regiment during the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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A portrait of Fridtjof Nansen, taken after his daring expedition across Greenland. (Image by Alamy)

My history hero Paul Rose chooses Fridtjof Nansen

A Victorian lady washing in the nude

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Members of Preston Ladies' Football Club (formerly Dick, Kerr’s Ladies) pose while carrying out leg exercises during practice, March 1937. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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1921: the year when football banned women

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe

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These nutritious and long-lasting Anzac biscuits are often associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. (Credit: Sam Nott)

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Australian troops (widely known as ‘Diggers’) at Anzac Cove in April 1915

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British military behind a barricade, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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The Easter Rising: when Ireland went to war

c1943: Soldiers enjoy a baseball match at Wembley Stadium in London between the United States Army and Canadian Forces. With them sits Bobby, the mascot of the Canadian Highland Scottish regiment. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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