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English suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), who led the movement to win the vote for women in Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)

Women in black: the surprising history of widows . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as a young man

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Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

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Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan

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Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

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1983: Princess Diana, here with Prince Charles and baby William in Australia, insisted that her sons experience normality (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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President Nixon making final TV address

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Mary Fissell on the history of medicine. (Image by Getty Images)

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The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

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Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Even after her death in 2013, her record continued to be fiercely contested. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

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