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Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

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Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

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Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

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Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that

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Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian daily life: what was it like for ‘ordinary’ Victorians?

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From fire hazard petticoats to garments that caused fainting and even death by poison, some trends in 19th-century women’s fashion were risky business for those who wore them. (Photo by Toronto Star Archives/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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Quiz Match these famous moustaches with the historical figures