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A James Gillray cartoon: 'Germans eating sour-krout'.

Cabbages and kings: how Georgian royals brought continental food to the British menu

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet

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Greg Jenner. (Photo by Frank Monks)

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Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, and Robert Bruce hold up the Declaration of Arbroath on a monument in the town. (Image by Getty Images)

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Thomas Ellis charted the frantic efforts to bring the crew of Apollo 13 home. (Image by Getty Images)

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Rosa Parks (right) riding on a bus following the Supremacial segregation on Montgomery's public transit system. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Portrait of Madam CJ Walker, America's first female millionaire. (Photo courtesy of Madam Walker Family Archives/A'Lelia Bundles)

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1986: Hans Holbein the Younger (ca. 1497-1543), Portrait of Jane Seymour (ca. 1509-1537), Third Wife of Henry VIII of England. (Photo By DEA / G. NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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(L-R) Marjorie Christel Johansson, Pearl Janssen, Jennifer Hosten, Jillian Jessup, Irith Lavi – the top five contestants in Miss World 1970. (Image by BBC/Shutterstock)

Misbehaviour at Miss World: what happened at the 1970 beauty pageant?

The congregation in Westminster Cathedral, London, during National Prayer Day, 7 September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Praying for Britain: the history of national days of prayer

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'The Poor Actress's Christmas Dinner', a painting by pre-Raphaelite artist Robert Braithwaite Martineau, says much about the way Victorians had begun to understand the problem of loneliness. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

The invention of loneliness: why being ‘unhappy alone’ is a surprisingly modern idea

A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The dangers of the Blitz spirit

Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their third son, Prince Edward, on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of royal mothers and childbirth

17th September 1936: The British minister of health, Sir Kingsley Wood, watches nurses weighing newborn twins during a visit to Southmead Hospital in Bristol to see the work local authorities were doing for the maintenance and improvement of health and housing conditions. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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