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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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History hero: Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hampton Court and the Amritsar massacre . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Matchgirls strike and back to 1918 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The legend of King Arthur and fighter pilots . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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6 trailblazing women in history

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Britain’s First World War flying aces

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The Library An adulterous scandal and a grisly end . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Attenborough on Darwin . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robert Burns and Francis Bacon . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Made of basalt, this inscribed stone dates to the sixth century BC. The figure is Nabonidus who was the last king of Babylon before the Persian invasion under Cyrus II. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)
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Babylon: From riches to ruins

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A portrait of William Hogarth, whom Simon Jones admires for possessing an extraordinary eye for pictorial detail and social nuance. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Arthur addresses his knights in a 12th-century Arthurian manuscript now held in Rennes, France. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)
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Would the real King Arthur please stand up