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Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Circa 1510, Babur Shah (Zahir ud-Din Muhammad, 1482 - 1530), first of the mughal emperors of India. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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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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Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612, as shown in a contemporary illustration. (Picture by Getty Images)

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Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Nineteenth century engraving depicting raining cats and dogs

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Colourful illustration of 12 historical figures's heads (Winston Churchill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Thomas Cromwell, Richard III, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn, William Marshal, Jane Austen, Hatshepsut, Gandhi and Catherine the Great) shown in a grid pattern.

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A axe stuck in a piece of wood

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Women carrying flags and scythes or beating drums - one has a child on her shoulders - march on the Palace of Versailles to protest to the king

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Illustration of the man in the iron mask standing by the window of his cell and guarded by two musketeers

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