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The 19th-century political and social theorist Karl Marx; co-author (with Friedrich Engels) of The Communist Manifesto (1848). (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Karl Marx (1818–83) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mohandas Ghandi, 'the father of the nation', enjoys a laugh with his two granddaughters. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Dandy Gandhi to naked Fakir: the Indian leader’s revolutionary dress code

A portrait of Winston Churchill

‘Ask your father’: the general election of 1945

British soldier, explorer and big game hunter Frederick Selous, pictured in 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The hunter who became a naturalist

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The Red Flag

A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

Looking back at The End of History

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Pistols at Dawn

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Medieval petitions and 17th-century astronomers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

History hero: Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Secrets of WWII, the French Revolution and ‘The History of Scotland’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Hubert Butler (1900–1991) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

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The Duke of Wellington . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.