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A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

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A history of science in 10½ objects

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

8 facts about the Elgin Marbles

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Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

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Leprosy How has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100 The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history

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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South

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A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

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Episode 4 The mystery of Nefertiti . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Mirroring Multicultural Britain

An illustration depicting the Great Fire of London.

Your guide to the Great Fire of London, plus 10 surprising facts

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

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Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door

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Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.