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1774: A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?'. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

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Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

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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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The pirate John Avery and his crew capture the the Moghul emperor Aurangzeb 's ship in the Indian ocean in the late 17th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Clash between the English Temeraire and the French Redoutable ships during the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

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Picture of Luddites destroying machinery

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A portrait of Marie Antoinette dated 1783 and painted by Vigée-Le Brun. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Queen Victoria on an ivory throne

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Sunset at the Chephren Pyramid, Giza, Egypt

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Painting of Bligh and those loyal to him being cast adrift from the Bounty in a small boat

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The renowned poet Lord Byron has gone down in history for being “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. But his ancestors were hardly paragons of virtue. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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