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👑What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne? If you're in the UK, pre-order 'REGINA' and nab some gorgeous goodies👌 Pre-order: Goodies: #History #RoyalFamily

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Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne was born in #London #OTD 1882 #winniethepoohday

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British writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist Beatrix Potter was born in #London #OTD 1866 #womeninhistory

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#OTD in 2011 The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place at #WestminsterAbbey in #London , United Kingdom. Learn more about his early life here 🤴 👸 👰 #royalhistory #theroyalfamily #Royals

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Hans and Sophie Scholl, who organised the 'White Rose' German resistance group opposing the Nazi regime, were executed by guillotine in #Munich #OTD 1943. They were charged with treason after being caught distributing anti-war leaflets. #WW2

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The day is finally here! Happy Publication Day to 'The Princes in The Tower' 📕👑 ✨ To celebrate we are giving away one copy, signed by Philippa Langley. To enter, like and RT this post. UK entrants only. Ends 26th November 🎉 #Giveaway #warsoftheroses #princesinthetower

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Historian @DavidOlusoga : via @guardian : "This was not an attack on history. This is history. It is one of those rare historic moments whose arrival means things can never go back to how they were." #Bristol #Colston

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#OTD 1953 Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey @wabbey #coronation #royals #CoronationDay @RoyalFamily

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Happy #Halloween 🎃👻💀 To celebrate we’re having a very spooky #Giveaway and giving away a copy of ‘Royal Witches’ by @GemmaHAuthor 🧙‍♀️ To enter, like and RT this post. UK entrants only. Ends 7th November. #spookyseason #spooktober

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Happy #1stofDecember ! We're kicking off our #AdventCalendar with a very festive #giveaway ! Behind door number 1 'Why Was the Partridge in the Pear Tree?' To enter like and RT this post. Ends December 4th at 11.59 GMT and is UK only! 🎅 🤶 🎁 #christmasgiftideas @THP_Local

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#OTD 1888 the #Football League was founded by then Aston Villa director William McGregor, with 12 member clubs @EFL @AVFCOfficial ⚽

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Run - don't walk! - to your nearest bookseller for your copy of @SirRogerMoore 's '007 Diaries', now back in print! #LiveandLetDiary

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🎁 #ChristmasGiveaway alert!🎁 Santa has come early because we're giving away one copy of 'Jane Austen's Christmas' 📘🎄 RT this post and follow us to be in with a chance of winning. #Giveaway ends Friday 15th and is UK only #JaneAusten #Christmasgifts

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Happy Publication Day to 'London Underground Symmetry & Imperfections' ! 📘 ✨ To celebrate we're giving away a copy to one lucky person! To enter like and RT this post. Ends January 8th at 11.59 GMT and is UK only. @tubemapper #GiveawayAlert #GiveAway

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🎉🎉🎉 Publication Day #Giveaway ! RT and follow us by midnight tonight for your chance to #win a copy of 'The #ChurchillGirls '! (UK only) 🎉🎉🎉 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #Biography #NewBook

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Archaeologists say ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ finds near #London Bridge are from heyday of Londinium (via @guardian ) #Archaeology #Londonhistory

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"A truly spectacular celebration of British culture and the ultimate pomp of royalty." Published for #KingCharlesCoronation , 'The Throne: 1,000 Years of British Coronations' details their eventful history from 1066 to the present day. 📚 #KingCharlesIII

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"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes." Andy #Warhol , born #OTD in 1928

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#OTD 1896 #Glasgow 's Underground railway, also known as the #Shoogle and the #ClockworkOrange was opened. #transport

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Penguin Paperbacks launched by Allen Lane #OTD 1935 to make #books affordable to all, created a revolution in #publishing @PenguinBooks

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'The 007 Diaries Fine Press Edition' by #RogerMoore is coming in October 📘🕵️📽️Click here to find out more and Pre-order your copy now: #JamesBond

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🚨 GIVEAWAY ALERT 🚨 In recognition of #BlackHistoryMonth , we're giving away two signed copies of 'The Prince and the Plunder' 📘 ✨ To enter, like and RT this post. UK entrants only. #Giveaway ends 19th of October. @AndrewHeavens @lootplunder #blackhistory #repatriation

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#OTD 1776 the #LibertyBell rang out from Pennsylvania State House summoning citizens to the first public reading of US Declaration of Independence

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Thank you for 60,000 Twitter followers! To celebrate we're giving 1 follower the chance to win a bundle of 6 of our 2020 releases. To enter, simply retweet and follow us by 11.59PM BST today! UK and Ireland only. #giveaway

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Day 9 of #giveaways ! #RT &F to #win #NelsonMandela ! #Winner announced at 4pm! UK only. #xmas #gift

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At 07.30 #OTD 1916 whistles were being blown & trumpets blared - the command was given to go over the top, beginning the Battle of the #Somme #WW1 @RealFWW

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Happy #NationalBookLoversDay 📚 To celebrate, we're giving away one copy of 'The History and Natural History of Spices' 🎉 To enter like and RT this post. Ends 14th of August. #Giveaway #GiveawayAlert #booktwitter

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Margaret of Anjou, Queen consort of #England as the wife of Henry VI, died #OTD 1482 #medievaltwitter

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An entire German battle squadron was destroyed by the @RoyalNavy at the Battle of the #Falkland Islands #OTD 1914. #WW1

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Day 7 of #giveaways ! #RT &F to #win #Einstein ! #Winner announced at 4pm! UK only. #xmas #gift

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Happy Birthday Mary Anning! The British fossil collector and palaeontologist, known for a number of important finds (but not always credited), was born on this day in 1799: #MaryAnning #JurassicCoast #WomenInHistory #WomeninSTEM

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100 years since the end of the Battle of #Passchendaele , today we remember the soldiers from all over the world that gave their lives at the battle #WW1 #OTD #Remembrance #Passchendaele100 #RemembranceDay

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130 years ago women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory in Bow, #London went on strike over the poor working conditions at the factory - it became known as the #Matchgirls strike @TheHeroineColl #womenshistory

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July 31 marks #100years since the start of one of the most famous #WW1 battles, #Passchendaele : #centenary #battle

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#OTD 1950 - British troops arrive in #Korea to support the US-led United Nation force in the #Korean #War

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The perfect view for todays #MosaicMonday ! 😍🙌🐘 #ancienthistory #Archaeology #ancientrome #Morocco

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Discovery of a Roman mosaic in the ancient city of Volubilis, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mauritania Today it is located in the city of Moulay Idriss near Meknès in Morocco.

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Today's #GoogleDoodle marks what would have been the 111th birthday of Sir Nicholas Winton, who single-handedly saved 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust. #Kindertransport #WW2

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Day 8 of #giveaways ! #RT &F to #win #Buddha ! #Winner announced at 4pm! UK only. #xmas #gift

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#Oxford University's Bodleian Library was opened to the public #OTD 1602. @bodleianlibs

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#OTD 1955 #RosaParks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Alabama. #CivilRights #womenshistory

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Make sure to catch #ThePrincesintheTower : The New Evidence on @Channel4 tonight at 8pm 📺This new documentary opens up one of English history’s greatest mysteries and ties into our fantastic new book with Philippa Langley #theprincesinthetower #RichardIII @RobbieRinder

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👑 LONG LIVE THE KING 👑 To celebrate ahead of the #coronation tomorrow we're giving away a royal flush of books 📚 To enter, like and RT this post. #Giveaway ends on the 9th of May at 8am GMT @MajestyMagazine #BookGiveaway #CharlesIII #CoronationWeekend

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Middlesbrough-born Stanley Hollis, the only man to win a Victoria Cross ( #VC ) on #DDay , should have been the most famous soldier of #WW2 – but his natural modesty got in the way... #WW2History #DDay75thAnniversary #LestWeForget

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The #Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public #OTD 1602 @bodleianlibs @UniofOxford

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#OTD in 1882 Virginia Woolf, English author and critic, was born.

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Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Red Army soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division #OTD 1945 #HolocaustMemorialDay #WW2

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The sportsmen & women who lost their lives in the Holocaust: #Olympics2016 @JewishNewsUK

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#OTD 1429 during the Hundred Years War, 17-year-old #JoanofArc led a French force in relieving the city of Orleans #womenshistory

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Day 11 of #giveaways ! #RT &F to #win #Freud ! #Winner announced on Monday! UK only. #xmas #gift

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The first #Barbie doll went on display at the American Toy Fair in #NewYork City #OTD 1959

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Day 12 of #giveaways ! #RT &F to #win #Hannibal & #Scipio ! #Winner announced at 4pm! UK only. #xmas #gift

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It's your LAST chance to enter our royal #Giveway !! ✨📚 RT and Follow to enter. #Giveaway ends at 11.59 GMT today and is for UK residents only. #PlatinumJubilee #PlatinumJubileeCelebration #TheQueen #HM70 #Competition

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A #Zeppelin dropped a single bomb on St James's Rectory, #Dover #OTD 1914 in the first ever aerial bombing raid on UK soil. #WW1

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#OTD in 1768 Captain James Cook set sail from #Plymouth , England on board HMS Endeavour. #Maritime #exploration

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Alexandra of #Denmark , Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Empress consort of #India as the wife of Edward VII, was born in #Copenhagen #OTD 1844 #royals #womeninhistory

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Nine 'amazing' Bronze Age figures found in #Orkney (via @BBCNews ) #Archaeology

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#OTD in 1944 Anne Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to the #Auschwitz concentration camp, where they arrived three days later. Find out more in a timeline of Anne Frank's life: 🕯️ #annefrank #WWII #jewishhistory

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Extraordinary photos of #JaneAusten 's family are discovered (via @MailOnline ) #twitterstorians

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#OTD 1935 #WW1 veteran and military officer T.E. Lawrence, (Lawrence of Arabia), died as a retired RAF mechanic living under an assumed name. #LawrenceofArabia

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On #ReadABookDay , a chance to read #VictoriaandAbdul before seeing the film. RT & follow for a chance to win a copy!

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Queen Elizabeth II was born 95 years ago #onthisday in 1926. #InformallyRoyal by Rodney Laredo explores how Studio Lisa's pioneering approach to capturing the #RoyalFamily dramatically changed how we view them:

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#OTD 400 years ago the Thirty Years' War began, leading to famines and plagues and becoming the greatest medical catastrophe in modern European history. #militaryhistory

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Margaret #Thatcher defeated Edward Heath in the #Conservative Party leadership election #OTD 1975 to become the party's first female leader

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Physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in #Britain #OTD 1865 #womeninSTEM

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Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, founding members of the Weisse Rose (White Rose) resistance movement, were arrested by the Gestapo for opposing the Nazi regime #OTD 1943 #WW2

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485 years ago, #OTD 1536, #HenryVIII married his third wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after Anne Boleyn's execution #Tudors

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SOE agent Odette Hallowes, Allied heroine of #WW2 , died in #Surrey #OTD 1995. She was the first woman to be awarded both the George Cross and to be appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. #WomensHistoryMonth

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RT&F by 4pm for a chance to win a copy of 'Victoria & Abdul' before it's released on 21/7! (UK only) #TheOtherVandA

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Mary Anning was a pioner of #palaeontology , yet her greatness was never recognised during her lifetime. #AdaLovelaceDay #womeninSTEM

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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the most popular novels in English literature, was first published #OTD 1813.

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DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on (via @BBCNews ) #womeninhistory

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Mary I, the only surviving child of Henry VIII of #England 's first marriage to Katherine of #Aragon , was born in #London #OTD 1516. #royals #Tudor #womeninhistory

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Today marks #100years since the Representation of the People Act, which first gave [some] UK women over 30 the right to vote. We celebrate those women that fought for suffrage then & those who keep fighting for equality #Suffrage100 #VotesForWomen #Votes100 #Suffragette100 #OTD

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Day 6 of #giveaways ! #RT &F to #win #Darwin ! #Winner announced at 4pm! UK only. #xmas #gift

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#Pompeii : Archaeologists unveil ceremonial chariot discovery (via @BBCNews ) #Archaeology #ancientrome

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Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the #Wimbledon singles title #onthisday in 1975: @Wimbledon #Tennis

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#Churchill made his "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" speech #OTD 1940 #WW2

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Ada #Lovelace , English #mathematician and #computing pioneer, and the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron, was born #OTD 1815 #STEM #womeninhistory #AdaLovelace

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#OTD 1982 - Operation Black Buck: @RoyalAirForce attacks the Argentine Air Force during the #Falklands War

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The #Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public #OTD 1602 @bodleianlibs @UniofOxford

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#OTD in 1976 the Queen became one of the first Heads of State to send an e-mail during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern. Find out more in 'Queen Elizabeth II: pocket GIANTS' #QueenElizabethII #royalhistory #royalfamily

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Bond girl Madeline Smith pictured here looking festive with our wonderful new Fine Press Edition of 'The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die' by #RogerMoore . The perfect gift this #Christmas !📘✨ Click here to see more👉 @maddysmith007 #JamesBond

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230 years ago, #OTD 1789, the #FrenchRevolution began with the storming of the Bastille prison during a popular uprising in #Paris #France #c18th #BastilleDay

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Join us this jubilee weekend for a royal flush of a giveaway!! ✨📚 Simply follow us and RT to enter. #Giveaway ends at 11.59 GMT on the 5th June and is UK only. #PlatinumJubilee #PlatinumJubileeCelebration #TheQueen #HM70 #Competition

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#WW1 #poet Wilfred Owen is remembered for his shocking #poetry about the horror of #warfare . He died #OTD 100 years ago

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Did you know - the Armoured Personnel Carrier in 'Aliens' was built over the air towing tractor Hunslet ATT77. Feast your eyes on these designs & more in art director Terry Ackland-Snow's #newbook , 'The Art of #Film : Designing #JamesBond , Aliens, #Batman & More'. #movies #geek

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#OTD 1946 the School Milk act ordered the issue of one-third of a pint of #milk free to all pupils under 18 in UK state schools #education

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"When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future." You served us well, Your Majesty. #ElizabethII #TheQueen

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Winston #Churchill was appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain #OTD 1940 #WW2

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The #SuttonHoo excavation began after a gardener discovered an iron rivet which led to the discovery of the remains of a boat 80 years ago, #OTD 1939 #SuttonHoo80 #Archaeology

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English physician Edward Jenner administered the world’s first vaccination as a preventive treatment for smallpox 225 years ago, #OTD 1796 #STEM #c18th

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The #GunpowderPlot was thwarted #OTD 1605 when Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar beneath the House of Lords by Sir Thomas Knyvet. #twitterstorians

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Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis #OTD 1799. Her findings contributed to important changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth, becoming key pieces of evidence for extinction. #WomenInSTEM #paleontology

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🎉 Happy Publication Day to @hoyer_kat for 'Blood and Iron' - her "brilliant", "balanced" and "thoroughly engaging" new history of Germany! Discover this dramatic tale of national self-discovery with @AGreatReadUK or from your local bookshop today! 📕

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The #Bakerloo Line on the #London Underground officially opened #OTD 1906. #transport #railway @bakerlooline

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...11 years earlier Queen Victoria had opened the Great Exhibition in #London 's Hyde Park #OTD

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Inmates of the Nazi concentration camp at #Auschwitz revolted, killing SS guards and destroying one crematorium #OTD 1944. #WW2

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'Last assembly' of Bomber Command veterans gather for opening of International Bomber Command Centre @IntBCC #WW2

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Anne Boleyn: aristocratic daughter of earls and dukes; the polished, intelligent courtesan and the spurned wife, persecuted by enemies and condemned by her husband. This is her, and her family's story - published 28 Sept🌹 📚 @DrClaireAMartin #History

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American-born British politician Nancy Astor who became the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons was born in #Danville , #Virginia 140 years ago, #OTD 1879 #womeninhistory

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Charlotte #Bronte 's #JaneEyre was published by Smith, Elder & Co #OTD 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell

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