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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)

Burglary: a modern history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House, London

History hero Michael Heseltine chooses Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

The curious case of Lord Lucan + 10 other mysterious disappearances from history

Thomas Blood stealing the Crown Jewels

The day Thomas Blood stole the Crown Jewels

The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

The death of Sir Winston Churchill and the top-secret plans for his funeral

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?

Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

The Queen’s “rebel sister”: 13 facts about Princess Margaret