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Apartheid road sign
20th Century

Your guide to apartheid in South Africa

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Victorian

Your guide to... debtors' prisons

Painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold (artist unknown) from around 1545
Tudor

Your guide to... the Field of the Cloth of Gold

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Early 19th-century engraving of a convict ship, ready to sail from England to Austrailia
Georgian

Your guide to... transportation to Australia

Painting of Pope Callixtus II, the first Borgia pope, though it would be his nephew Rodrigo (later Pope Alexander VI) who would earn great infamy
Renaissance

Your guide to... the Borgias

Limestone relief depicting a a procession of courtiers paying homage to the Ahiram, king of the Phoenician city of Byblos
General ancient history

Your guide to... the Phoenicians

Fresh recruits on parade at North Frith Barracks, Hampshire, in 1953 following their call-up for National Service
20th Century

Your guide to... National Service in Britain

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church
General Early Modern

Your guide to... the Freemasons

Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War
Roman

Your guide to... the Punic Wars

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Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer
Roman

Your guide to... the fall of Rome

Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China
General ancient history

Your guide to... the Silk Road

A 16th-century painting of the Tower of Babel
General ancient history

Your guide to... the ancient city of Babylon

Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said
20th Century

Your guide to... the Suez Crisis

The battle of First Bar, 1841
Victorian

Your guide to... the Opium Wars

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council
Medieval

Your guide to... the Privy Council

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