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Two fighting Irishmen with axes, one hitting another in the head. Illustration after the Roy manuscript, 13th century (Photo by Getty Images)

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British ships on convoy duty in the North Atlantic

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Welcome home: the cruiser 'Exeter' arrives back at Plymouth, c15 February 1940, after taking part in the battle of the River Plate. The action resulted in the scuttling of the German pocket battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee', which had sent several British merchant ships to the bottom of the Atlantic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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This is the famous Rhynie Man carved stone, thought to be Pictish in date. (Photo by © Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology)

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Historian Emma Griffin. (Photographed by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

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Protesters demonstrate against a US military base at Santo Stefano in 2005

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What have the Romans done for us? (Illustration by Davide Bonazzi)

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Eric Monkman, Bobby Seagull at Merton College Field, Oxford - the site of James Sadler's 1784 hot air balloon flight. (BBC/Label1 Television/Ryan McNamara)

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Cloisters at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (Photo by Dreamstime)

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