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A painting by Dutch artist Hendrick Danckerts shows Charles II’s gardener, John Rose, presenting the king with a pineapple
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Pineapples, tulips and follies: 10 status symbols from history

Howard Hughes makes preparations for the historic flight of the Spruce Goose.
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Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon

The House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration
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Your guide to The South Sea Bubble

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Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin
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Kwasi Kwarteng "Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money"

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Medieval money tricks and the modern world

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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)
Tudor

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets
Victorian

Who were the tycoons of the Gilded Age? Meet the ruthless ‘robber barons’ who made millions

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show
20th Century

The con man who saved Christmas

A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)
General Modern

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

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