Emma Mason, Editor, HistoryExtra.com

Emma Mason

Emma Mason was Content Strategist at HistoryExtra.com, the official website for <em>BBC History Magazine</em> and <em>BBC History Revealed</em> until August 2022. She joined the <em>BBC History Magazine</em> team in 2013 as Website Editor Emma has a degree in modern history and politics and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from Cardiff University's world-leading School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Emma previously worked for <em>The Independent</em>, the Press Association and Local World.

Diana and Charles in Canada, 1986

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Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

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Curling stones during a match at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

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The First Thanksgiving in 1621, after a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme; screen print, 1932. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

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Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII in the 1963 film, Cleopatra. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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Athenian red-figure cup showing a seated man with a naked boy in the inside tondo, 470 BC

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Keith Granville, managing director of BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), holding a model of the Boeing 747 jet, with the new aircraft hangars under construction in the background, at Heathrow Airport, 17 March 1969. (Photo by Jim Gray/Keystone/Getty Images)

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The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

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The crew of ‘Mi Amigo’. The pilot, 23-year-old Lt John Kriegshauser, can be seen in the front row, far left. (Photo courtesy of Sheffield County Council via American Air Museum in Britain)

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