People watching the Royal Wedding

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Shibden Hall, Halifax

Sudley House, Liverpool

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

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Weobley Castle, Swansea

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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Was there ever an execution where rain saved someone from being burned at the stake?

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The Day Parliament Burned Down

Argyll’s Lodging, Stirling

The White Tower, one of the oldest parts of the Tower of London complex, was built by William the Conqueror. (Getty Images)

Castles of the Conqueror

A Victorian drawing room with pictures in heavy frames and ornately covered furniture, c1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland

Scenes of frivolity in the 16th century. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Executed queen

Woodcutting depicting the beheading of Charles I. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Fort George

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Guinness o'clock

An illustration depicting medieval pilgrims. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The replica of 'The Matthew' arriving at Douarnenez, France in 1998. It was on the original 15th-century vessel that John Cabot travelled to North America. (Getty Images)

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Peover Hall, Cheshire

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German bomber insurance

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St Fagans, Cardiff

Procession portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Arundel Castle, West Sussex

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Burst bubble

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Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea

A photograph of J Meade Falkner, c1915. He "had an extraordinary mind, the type you don't come across often," says Chris de Burgh of the novelist. (Public Domain)

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