Architecture

The entrance to Bodiam Castle.

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Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Hitler and architects visiting the construction site of the Berghof around Christmas 1935. From left to right: Leonhard Gall, Gerdy Troost, Hitler, and Wilhelm Brückner, Hitler’s chief adjutant. (United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland)

Second World War

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In the ninth century Pope Nicholas I decreed that St Peter’s symbol, the cockerel, should be displayed on all churches and many incorporated the design into weather vanes. Pictured here is the St Thomas church spire, Melbury Abbas in Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

General prehistory

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A councillor and architects discuss plans for the Moss Heights development in Glasgow, 1953. Proponents of high-rise flats believed that they would provide

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Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)

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Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire. (Photo by Archimage/Alamy Stock Photo)

Through the Georgian keyhole

Chatsworth House

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Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles

Albert Einstein, standing in front of the Einstein Tower in 1926. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The saga of the Einstein Tower

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Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War

Aerial view on Westminster Abbey at night. (Photo by Pawel Libera/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

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The mahogany wooden interior of the Glasgow School of Art

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Dover Castle, Kent. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Photo of Derinkuyu Underground City

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