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Charles Emmerson (Photo by James Hill NYT Moscow)

The birth of the modern world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British nurse Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), aka the 'Lady with the lamp', makes her rounds during the Crimean War. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Midwives and babies in the sun

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Uncertain futures: Children of black American servicemen and white British women often spent time in case, such as this group photographed at Holnicote House in Somerset. (Photo by Lesley York – Author provided)

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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini give a fascist salute

A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends

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Detail of the processional frieze Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

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Margaret Thatcher enters Downing Street

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Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

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A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Eleanor of Aquitaine's tomb in Fontevraud Abbey, Loire, France (Photo by Alamy)

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A portrait of Louis XIV in 1701.

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Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history

(Illustration by Davide Bonazzi for BBC World Histories Magazine)

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A voter in a British election in 1923.

A new political climate? The UK’s long tradition of winter elections

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Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.