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A portrait of Thomas Cromwell

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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)

In pictures: the history of London’s Heathrow Airport

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Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Depiction of the five senses (sight, sound, taste, smell and touch) by a late 18th/early 19th unknown artist. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

5 smells that made Georgian England

Though the Jacobites broke the British line at Culloden, they faltered under heavy fire (Photo by Alamy)

The Jacobite rebellions: how close were they to returning the Stuarts to power?

Nancy Astor on the campaign trail in 1919

Nancy Astor facts: who was the first female MP in British history to take her seat in parliament?

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A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Michael Wood at BBC History Magazine's History Weekend in Chester (Photo byVictoria Tetley / VJT Photography)

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Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House, London

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During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

7 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Oscar Wilde

Henrietta Boyle

Fashion history: dressing to impress in the 17th century

A bust of Charlemagne

Charlemagne: creating the myth

William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

Your guide to... the Glorious Revolution

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The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

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