People watching the Royal Wedding

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Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

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Photo of the Jarrow March

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The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

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The skeleton exhumed from beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. The remains contained features matching Tudor descriptions of Richard III, and injuries to the skull and body inflicted at the battle of Bosworth in 1485

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A missionary preaches to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, c1650. By now, colonists were imposing their values on the indigenous population, encouraging them to dress like the English – and worship the English God. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Image of Empress Matilda

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Adam Henson and Robert Bakewell

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The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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(L to R) Elizabeth I, Charles II and Edward VII

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British writer Hilary Mantel photographed at home

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Crowds line the streets to watch the funeral cortege of Queen Victoria in February 1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Prince Charles in 1969

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Lucy Worsley. (Photography by Frank Monks)

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Queen Victoria's son, King Edward VII, rides in Queen Victoria's funeral procession, February 1901. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images)

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Queen Elizabeth wearing a hat against a blue background

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Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958

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The statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester set against a blue sky background

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Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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Ian Hislop and Alfred the Great

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Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe

JRR TolkienThe making of Middle Earth

The uniform worn by pupils at Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham. (Photo by Rex Features)

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A portrait of a young Queen Victoria from around the time of the first assassination attempt in 1840

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Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Edward Jenner

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An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

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