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A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)
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<> on May 30, 2014 in Kirkwall, Scotland.
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Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.
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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Samarkand 1404 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A woodcut showing the Globe Theatre, one of London's most famous landmarks and the venue most closely associated with Shakespeare's plays. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Illustration by Jonty Clark.
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The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)
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Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

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The site of the battle of Naseby, which saw parliament's New Model Army win its first major battle against the royalists in June 1645. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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Historic Rochester

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The man best associated with the new style of landscape gardening was William Kent (c1686–1748), a Yorkshire-born artist and architect. (Public domain)
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Historic Jedburgh

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A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British evacuees from Dunkirk walk off their rescue vessel land in Britain. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)
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Arundel castle at dawn
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Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)
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9 places associated with Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot