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How to stay fashionable in the 18th century.
Britain in 1950 was different, in many ways, from Britain today
An Edwardian campaign of terror.
Encounters with Eleanor of Aquitaine, Gutenberg and the spirit of Proust.
Wallada was among the greatest creative figures of 11th-century Córdoba.
Carthage and Rome go head to head.
The British Empire's 'sex problem'.
A personal reflection upon the religious roots of the Labour Party.
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The problem with historical fiction is that it needs heroes. History doesn't.
Will England's most reviled king get the 'Thomas Cromwell' treatment?
A review of Victorian Obsessions, an exhibition at Leighton House Museum, London.
The epochal year’s defining events do not begin and end with the Battle of Waterloo.
Questions on the Risorgimento, Tutankhamun, Gran Colombia and the Western Roman Empire.
An insight into the workings of a typical 10th-century Anglo-Saxon classroom.
Georgian shopping, Waterloo, Anglo-Saxon classrooms and the Sons of Mars.
Why was Thomas Becket considered a saint in the first place?
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