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The 14th-century Gough Map

The Gough Map: a map of medieval Britain

Street view of the medieval city of Dinan that belongs to the province of Brittany in the northwestern part of France

History holidays: French fancy

An aerial view of Wilton House

Going Dutch: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

West Kent Territorial Army

One hundred years of voluntary service

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A view of Machu Picchu, Peru

General ancient history

The Library Imperial marvels

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great

Henry VIII, Princess Mary and William Somers

Playing the fool: Tudor jesters

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

Map of Bayham Park from ‘Repton’s Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture’ by JC Loudon. (Photo by The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843)

The repulse of a sortie during the Siege of Delhi, a conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebels advance on a British battery, who repel them with swords, bayonets and rifles. A lithograph by E. Walker, after a drawing by Captain G. F. Atkinson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The myth of native-bashing

Archaeologist Howard Carter removing oils from the

Revelations in the Valley of the Kings: what has been found since King Tut’s coffin?

Head of a King, Tutankhamen, Egyptian. Located in the collection, Egyptian Museum, Berlin. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Tutankhamun: behind the mask

Statue of the great philosopher Confucius in Shanghai. Taken at the Shanghai Wen Miao, also known as the Shanghai Confucian Temple. (Photo by Getty Images)

The legacy of Confucius