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In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie

Captain Kidd

The sacrifice of Captain Kidd

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Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World

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The New Bath Guide

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Nazis 'planned gas attack' on Britain

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Bismarck: A Life

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Captain Cook: Master of the Seas

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A portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie), the grandson of James II and VII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryWhere history happened: The Jacobites

Operation Barbarossa, which began on 22 June 1941, saw more than three million German troops surge into the Soviet Union along a front of more than 1,000 miles. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Barbarossa and Britain

The Saint-Quentin canal, part of the Germans’ Hindenburg Line, which the Allies broke through on Sunday 29 September 1918. (Photo by 2nd Lt. D McLellan/ IWM via Getty Images)

The LibraryWhy didn’t the Allies march on Berlin in 1918?

Schoolchildren helping workmen construct a new estate of pre-fabricated houses in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1946 following the devastation of the Second World War. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Postwar squatters: a very British uprising

Sir Alec Clegg was the founder of Bretton Hall College (pictured), a West Yorkshire college specialising in arts and performance. (Photo by Memitina/Getty Images)

My history hero: Sir Alec Clegg (1909-86)

German Spring Offensive: reserve troops in Saint Quentin on their way to the front, March 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

How the war was won

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Ye olde travel guide: New Orleans 1858

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Grant's exploding cigar

A monumental misunderstanding

Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire

Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands

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The Devil's Dictionary

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Shakespeare’s Ophelia may have been real

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Dover War Tunnels

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The BBC Story

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The bravest of the brave

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Stirling Castle skeletons suffered “brutally violent” deaths

White Rock Copper Works, Swansea

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Satellite survey identifies lost Egyptian pyramids