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Vintage map of the Bahamas. (Library of Congress)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bahamas 1718 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Tirpitz' hiding in a Norwegian fjord in 1942. “She outclassed anything in the British fleet,” says Patrick Bishop. (Getty Images)

The Second World War: sinking the Tirpitz

A painting depicting the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo.

The triumph of the redcoats

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

The Library “Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War

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Ernest Bevin

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Q&A: Music as a ‘psych-weapon’

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Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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Goldwynisms

Vicious murder

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The Minack Theatre, Cornwall

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Relativity explained

Too good for the gallery

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BBC History Magazine now on Kindle

Chris Patten, the last governor of colonial Hong Kong, is pictured here receiving the Union Jack flag shortly before Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

The British empire: 10 big questions

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The fastest man on earth