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Queen Victoria receiving the sacrament at her coronation

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Mural from the Tombs of the Nobles.

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Vintage illustration from the poem 'The Night Before Christmas, or a Visit from St Nicholas' of Santa tacking stockings of gifts on the mantle on Christmas Eve; color lithograph by William Roger Snow.

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Medieval couple

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Cicero denounces plot organised by Catiline to take the power, mural painting by Cesare Maccari.

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QuizMatch these famous moustaches with the historical figures

Queen Elizabeth I.

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Soldiers of the English infantry in France, running out of their trenches at the signal to assault.

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A silhouette of troops of the 1st Australian Division during the First World War.

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The Family of Henry VIII

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Jonah being devoured by a whale

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Viking ships arriving in Britain, c1130.

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Hand drawn speech bubbles.

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BBC History Magazine covers

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Black and white photo of Lancaster bombers in the Battle of Britain.

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A cloth covered in chloroform is being held over the patient's face and carbolic spray worked by a steam apparatus is creating an antiseptic atmosphere.

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Hands holding up crown

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Pupils in a museum

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Richard, Duke of York challenges Edmund Beaufort, Suke of Somerset, to pick a side in the Wars of the Roses in Henry Payne's 1910 painting 'Choosing The Red and White Roses in the Temple Garden'

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A cartoon of Queen Elizabeth I

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The Statue of Liberty in New York. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

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