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Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hitler’s secret weapon

In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie

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The Library The Duke of Wellington and Alfred the Great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie), the grandson of James II and VII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Where history happened: The Jacobites . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire

DOVER CASTLE, Kent. Secret Wartime Tunnels. Interior view of the Anti Aircraft Operations Room in Hellfire Corner.

Dover War Tunnels

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St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury

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News for the BBC’s Domesday Project and the future of the National Archives . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 17th chart or map shows reefs and hazards to ships.

The notorious Captain Kidd

When Victoria wed, she wore white so the crowds could see her from afar. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman

A woman empties a chamber pot in this wood carving from c1489. In the medieval period,

5 of the worst smells in medieval London

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Westminster Abbey, London

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Mystery and drama with the Romans and the Elizabethans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2