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1949: Clementine with husband Winston Churchill at Epsom racecourse for the Derby. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A 19th-century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A First World War silk screened poster c1918 showing a frightening German soldier holding a bloodied bayonet. Caption reads:

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Composite image of famous women: Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Madame CJ Walker, Jane Austen, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ethel Smyth, the Virgin Mary, Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo, Diana, Princess of Wales, Amelia Earhart.

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