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A painting depicting an experiment in an English school on a bird in an air pump, 1768. National Gallery, London. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

How Europe won the race to prosperity

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Swiss psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung in his library at home. (Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The crews of Israeli armoured vehicles during the waiting period before the beginning of the Six-Day War. (Photo by David Rubinger/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A map of London dating from c1572. (Getty Images)

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Oswald Mosley receives a fascist salute from his followers in October 1936

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British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady

An older couple is watching a Canadian soldier with a bulldozer working in the ruins of a house in the rue de Bayeux.10th July 1944. The church towers in the background have survived the Allied bombing intact. Caen, Normandy, France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

D-Day: the successes and failures in focus

Bay filly , Sceptre. Photo by W A Rouch
Winner of the St Leger 1902. Owned by W A H Bass.

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Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A How many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?

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1966: the Beatles’ tumultuous world tour