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Children sit in front of their bombed-out house in London's East End during the Blitz

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Bronislawa Kokoszka's ID card

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The Declaration of Arbroath

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The will of William Shakespeare, proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

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A lesson on 'Hitlerism and democracy' at Cheadle High School, 1939

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine December 2020

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Crowds outside Buckingham Palace on VJ Day 1945 (colourised by MyHeritage)

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A tithe map of Buckinghamshire

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Fred Williams fishing

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Sepia photograph of 16 Royal Navy ship's officers posed for a photograph on board ship in 1890, with the ship's cat

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The entrance to The National Archives

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How to make the most of FREE online family history records from The National Archives

Black and white photograph of 1st Padiham (St Leonard's) Scout troop in the 1930s

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Ivan Watson's great great aunt Mary Sangster McDonald, photographed c.1892 with her first husband Peter Watson

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Huguenot Quentin Coquard's 1764 marriage record

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Descendants of the Alicandro, Anginotti, Canetti, Carboni, Pellegrina, Pelligrino (Julie Fawcett, far right), Persighetti and Saccomando families in the former church of St Vincent, Sheffield

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