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A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

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Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.

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Winston Churchill on roller skates

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A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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An East India Company official riding on an elephant

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Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

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British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

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Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

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Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

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Monument to Prince Vladimir the Great in Moscow

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The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

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