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A Victorian Christmas

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Land girls on an Essex turkey farm round up the turkeys for the last time. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin vs God: did the ‘Origin of Species’ cause a clash between church and science?

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

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A policewoman gives directions to tourists in London in the 1920s.

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An allegory of France in 1870

Franco-Prussian War: the conflict that plunged Europe into a nightmare

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Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales

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Karen Jones on the Wild West

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Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

The history of vaccination: from Edward Jenner to anti-vaxxers

George Washington

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(Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare. Portrait of Christian Cole: ©The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, G. A. Oxon 4° 417, fol. 980)

Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

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