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Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

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Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

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Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

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A third-century monument of a Roman woman having her hair styled by slaves, from Germany. High-status women on the frontiers, including at Hadrian's Wall, tried to follow the latest Roman fashions (Photo by DEA / M. BORCHI / Getty Images)

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St Hadrian of Canterbury

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Q&AWhich king thought he was made of glass

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Sarah Smith and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Richard, Duke of York challenges Edmund Beaufort, Suke of Somerset, to pick a side in the Wars of the Roses in Henry Payne's 1910 painting 'Choosing The Red and White Roses in the Temple Garden'

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The George Inn at Norton St Philip

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George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

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A portrait of William IV

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Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

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Troops clear damage after the Lynmouth flood disaster of 1952

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Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

Why we should remember…The battle of the Bogside

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

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Holbein's portrait of Edward VI

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Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

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A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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England's Daley Thompson during the high jump event of the decathlon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Emonton, Canada

A brief history of the Commonwealth Games

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

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Saint Wilfrid

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A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

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The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

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David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

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Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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