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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The Tudor sex guide

An illustration of Edmund Spenser’s poetic work ‘The Shepheardes Calender’. (Photo by Culture Club/Contributor/Getty Images)

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An illustration of Victoria Woodhull addressing a congressional committee on the benefits of women's suffrage, 1871. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Roman women on a fresco from Pompeii

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16th century engraving depicting a man with leprosy

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The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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How has public memory of the Holocaust changed over the years?

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Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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Chess, gambling and cards: Tudor games and indoor pastimes

The history of middle-class wine drinking

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

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Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

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Clay soldier statues of the Chinese Qin dynasty. (Photo by Getty Images)

The six ages of China

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The gruesome remains of prehistoric murder victims uncovered in Europe's bogs

Photo of a couple holding up a fan

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Photo of a Canadian postage stamp

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