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Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

The forgotten contributions of black Edwardians in Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf and wife of art critic Clive Bell, all of whom were members of the Bloomsbury Group.

Famous Edwardians From Beatrix Potter to Captain Robert F Scott

King Edward VII in his coronation robes.

Edward VII A guide to the king who ruled over the Edwardian age

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Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of Tanukh Warrior queen of Arabia . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

Caroline Dodds Pennock “Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

Billy the Kid The Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll: maker of wonderlands

Emblema of Cleopatra Selene

Cleopatra’s daughter: the tragic inheritance to triumphant reign of Cleopatra Selene

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’

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The brutal murder of Emmett Till was just one of thousands of racially motivated lynchings in the American South, but it proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights revolution. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Emmett Till The murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Howard Hughes makes preparations for the historic flight of the Spruce Goose.

Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the

The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice

A portrait of Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad II, whose bloodlust and cruelty was said to have inspired the most famous vampire of literature

The real Dracula? The bloodthirsty life of Vlad the Impaler

Edda Mussolini, c1929

Second World War

Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler