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Princess Elizabeth

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Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

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Queen Victoria in 1861

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The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

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Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

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King George II of Great Britain

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Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

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School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

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A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

A guide to the Seven Years’ War

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Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in mounted combat

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Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes

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Sketch of the battle of Blore Heath, howing the final disastrous charge of the Lancastrians

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The Beatles pictured in 1969

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A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

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