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A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)
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Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets
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The 2008 financial crisis explained

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971
20th Century

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800. (Image by Alamy)
Georgian

Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain

The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)
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A brief history of election “rigging” in the United States

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The Wall Street Crash: the day the bubble burst

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American business magnate JD Rockefeller sits at a desk
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Q&A Who was the first billionaire?

Gordon Brown talks to the History Extra podcast about Andrew Carnegie. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)
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Rutger Bregman. (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)
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Rutger Bregman: historian in the news

Illustration by Femke de Jong
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Does it always pay to trust the cash in your pockets?

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell on 29 September 2008. A record 778 points were wiped off the Dow Jones that day, as the 2008 financial crisis pushed the world's banking system to the edge of collapse. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
General Modern

The credit crunch: “It’s a story of hubris followed by a fall”

By the time George II came to the throne in 1727, Britain was a nation addicted to gaming. A Georgian gaming table is shown in this sketch by Thomas Rowlandson. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
Georgian

“A nation addicted to gaming”: the Georgians’ crackdown on addictive betting

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