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Hannah Humphrey Entrepreneurial Georgian printseller . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s
20th Century

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

A portrait of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, shown in profile
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Why we should remember… the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent

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Kleisthenes Father of Athenian democracy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Aina Forbes Bonetta Queen Victoria’s Yoruba goddaughter . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Malintzin Aztec interpreter . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe
20th Century

JRR Tolkien The making of Middle Earth

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Baron Franz Nopcsa in Albanian uniform.
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15 minutes of fame Tom Holland chooses Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate
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Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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15 minutes of fame Michael Wood chooses St Hadrian . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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St Hadrian of Canterbury Medieval African theologian . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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15 minutes of fame Fern Riddell chooses Charley Wilson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portraits of William III and Mary II, the only joint sovereigns in British history
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Your guide to William and Mary, the only joint sovereigns in British history