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Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)
20th Century

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

A brooch commemorating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Queen Victoria is surrounded by a gold frame, ribbons and laces. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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The Victorian shadow over the 20th century

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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The red dawn: the October Revolution

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El Alamein battle in the Libyan desert, c1942. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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El Alamein: the line in the sand

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Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)
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The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)
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Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
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The Carbonniere near Aigues Mortes, Saint Laurent d'Aigouze, Gard,White horses in the Camargue, France
Medieval

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

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10 weird things that have happened in November

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Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. (Channel 5)
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Eight Days That Made Rome: behind the scenes with historian Bettany Hughes

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